Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
John 19:37
So also by seeing Christ's side pierced, (a thing not very usual), they might have understood, that he was the person mentioned, Malachi 12:10.
So also by seeing Christ's side pierced, (a thing not very usual), they might have understood, that he was the person mentioned, Malachi 12:10.
ANOTHER’ SCRIPTURE - Zechariah 12:10. We must here be struck with the wonderful providence of God, that so many scriptures were fulfilled in his death. All these things happened without any such desig...
CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Behold the Man! (John 19:1 .)_ 2. The Last Question of Pilate and Christ's Last Word. (John 19:8 .) 3. Delivered up and Crucified. (John 19:12 .) 4. The Title upon the Cross. ...
THE LANCE-THRUST AND THE BURIAL. It has been said that these verses contain parts of two accounts of burial, by the Jews, and by Joseph. In reality the Jews only demand that the law of Deuteronomy 21:...
FOR THESE THINGS WERE DONE THAT THE SCRIPTURE SHOULD BE FULFILLED. The prophetic Scriptures alluded to are Exodus 12:46, and Zechariah 12:10. The paschal lamb, the bones of which were not to be broken...
Since it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a very important day) the Jews asked Pilate to break their limbs, and to hav...
JESUS AND PILATE (John 18:28-40 ; John 19:1-16)...
AN OTHER. Greek. _heteros._ App-124. saith. Note the careful discrimination in the words used. The former Scripture was fulfilled, i.e. filled full. This is not fulfilled, but in order to its fulfilme...
The Death and Burial For what is peculiar to S. John's narrative in this section see the introductory note to chap. 18. Besides this, the title on the cross, the Jews" criticism of it, and the conduc...
_They shall look_ All present, especially the Jews. The whole world was represented there. _pierced_ See on John 19:34. The word here used occurs nowhere else in N.T. excepting Revelation 1:7, and for...
ὌΨΟΝΤΑΙ. All present, especially the Jews. The whole world was represented there. ἘΚΚΕΝΤΑ͂Ν, ‘to pierce deeply,’ occurs nowhere else in N.T. excepting Revelation 1:7, and forms a connexion worth notin...
THE PETITION OF THE JEWS AND THE PETITION OF JOSEPH...
THE DEATH AND BURIAL For what is peculiar to S. John’s narrative in this section see the introductory note to chap. 18. Besides this, the title on the cross, the Jews’ criticism of it, and the conduc...
Ver 31. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath clay, (for that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their leg...
ΌΨΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ, _см._ John 19:33; здесь: признавать, Кто Он; цитата из Zechariah 12:10. ΈΞΕΚΈΝΤΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΚΚΕΝΤΈΩ (G1574) ранить, в _знач._ "убивать"....
DISCOURSE: 1727 THE TREATMENT OF OUR LORD’S BODY ON THE CROSS John 19:31. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for...
AND FORTHWITH, &C.— Whether this was, as Dr. Drake and several others suppose, the small quantity of water inclosed in the _pericardium,_ in which the heart swims, or whether the _cruor_ was now almos...
IT IS FINISHED _Text: John 19:28-37_ 28 After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst. 29 There was set there a vessel full...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 19:25-42 Below is an Analysis of John 19:25-42:— 1. The mother of Jesus and the beloved disciple, verses 25-27. John says nothing about the Savior’s agony in G...
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. AND AGAIN ANOTHER SCRIPTURE SAITH (ZECHARIAH 12:10 ), THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED. This quotation is not ta...
25 Physical relationships are temporary, and will be superseded by spiritual ties. All lasting spiritual bonds are made at the foot of the cross. 28-30 Compare Mat_27:45-51; Mar_15:33-36; Luk_23:46;...
19:37 says, (a-5) See Zechariah 12:10 ....
THE SIGN OF THE PIERCED SIDE. A section peculiar to St. John, and claiming expressly to be the testimony of an eyewitness. The knowledge of Jewish and Roman custom displayed in it speaks for its histo...
THEY SHALL LOOK] St. John quotes directly from the Heb. of Zechariah 12:10, which the LXX has mistranslated. We have here a point of contact with Revelation 1:7....
THE CRUCIFIXION. THE BURIAL 1-3. Inside the Prætorium. Scourging and mockery by the soldiers (Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15). It might be supposed from Mt and Mk that the scourging was only the ordinary p...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 PILATE ORDERS HIS SOLDIERS TO WHIP JESUS 19:1-16 V1 So Pilate ordered his soldiers to whip Jesus. V2 The soldiers to...
THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED. — The words, as they occur in the Authorised version, of the prophecy are, “They shall look upon Me whom they have pierced,” but the reading which St. John ha...
XXI. _ THE CRUCIFIXION._ "The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the coat was without seam, wove...
_The piercing of Jesus' side_....
THE PIERCED SIDE John 19:31-37 How punctilious the Jewish leaders were to maintain each detail of their ritual! Remember that there is a religiousness which is not religion but its counterfeit. John...
Here once more we have the story of the Cross, and once again it is a story to be read almost without note or comment. The picture of our Lord led forth and presented to the crowds by Pilate is one of...
This text is from Zacharias xii. 10. and seems to refer most literally to Jesus Christ....
THE INTERMENT Matthew 27:57-61; Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:31-42. “Then the Jews, in order that the
“ _And he who saw it has borne witness, and his testimony is true_, _and he knows that he says true, that you also may believe._ 36. _For these things came to pass that the Scripture might be fulfille...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 31-42. 1. If the Sabbath referred to in John 19:31 was the 15th of Nisan, we have a very simple and satisfactory explanation of the expression that it was...
THIRD SECTION: 19:16B-42. THE EXECUTION OF JESUS. 1. The crucifixion: John 19:16; John 19:16; 2. The inscription: John 19:19-22; 3. The parting of the garments:...
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, (for that sabbath-day was an high day), besought Pilate that their legs might b...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
37._They shall look on him whom they pierced. _This passage is violently tortured by those who endeavor to explain it literally as referring to Christ. Nor is this the purpose for which the Evangelist...
Pilate (chapter 19) gives way to his usual inhumanity. In the account, however, given in this Gospel, the Jews are prominent, as the real authors (as far as man was concerned) of the Lord's death. Jea...
AND AGAIN ANOTHER SCRIPTURE SAITH,.... Zechariah 12:10 which as the former is referred to on account of the not breaking of his bones, this is cited as fulfilled by the piercing of his side: THEY SHA...
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. Ver. 37. _They shall look upon him_] This is not a threat, but a promise, Zechariah 12:10, fulfilled,Acts 2:37, when Peter...
_That the bodies should not remain on the cross_ It was customary among the Romans to let the bodies of persons who had been executed continue on the crosses, or stakes, till they were devoured by bir...
ANOTHER SCRIPTURE; ZECHARIAH 12:10....
AND AGAIN ANOTHER SCRIPTURE SAITH, THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED. The Jews, that is, their spiritual leaders, concerned, as usual, more about the keeping of the traditions of their elders,...
THE BURIAL OF JESUS. The piercing of the side:...
CRIMINALLY ASSAULTED IN THE COURT! (vs.1-12) Pilate then tried another desperate move, having the Lord scourged. This was gross injustice, yet he hoped by this to placate the Jews' enmity, considerin...
31-37 A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. The spear broke up the very fountains of...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Up to the present moment they have not, tribe by tribe, smitten their breasts, looking on Him whom they pierced.[142] Tertullian On the Resurrection of th...
John 19:37 And G2532 again G3825 another G2087 Scripture G1124 says G3004 (G5719) look G3700 (G5695) on...
THE LAMB IS OFFERED UP (JOHN 19:16). Meanwhile the innocent victim was being dragged through the streets of the city, and then through an outer gate in order to be crucified ‘outside the gate' (Hebrew...
‘And he who has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says what is true that you also may believe. For these things came about that the Scripture might be fulfilled, ‘A...
John 19:36-37. FOR THESE THINGS CAME TO PASS, THAT THE SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED, A BONE OF HIM SHALL NOT HE CRUSHED; AND AGAIN ANOTHER SCRIPTURE SAITH, THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED. Th...
Jesus is now dead, and this paragraph relates the events immediately following, before His body was removed from the cross....
THEY PIERCED (εξεκεντησαν). First aorist active of εκκεντεω, late verb, correct translation of the Hebrew of Zechariah 12:10, but not like the LXX, in N.T. only here and Revelation 1:7....
John 19:23. _There the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments,_ They had already stripped him, no element of shame was wanting in his substitution for us. He stooped as low as our...
John 19:1. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him._ This was one of the most terrible punishments to which a man could be sentenced. The Roman scourge was no trifle. It tore off the quiv...
CONTENTS: Pilate brings Jesus before the multitude. The rejection of the Savior and the crucifixion. His entombment. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pilate, soldiers, Jesus' mother, His aunt, wife of Cleophas, Ma...
John 19:1. _Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him,_ as stated in Matthew 27:26. In cases where this preseded crucifixion, Cicero has recited the form of the sentence from the Roman law. _I, lic...
36-37. TO MAKE THE SCRIPTURE COME TRUE. The prophecies about the Messiah were so complex that only the One who was the Son of God could fulfill them all! Compare Psalms 34:20; Exodus 12:46; Psalms 22:...
_The Jews therefore because it was the preparation_ PROFANITY OF FANATICISM They must make ready for keeping holy the Sabbath while their hands are red with the murder of the Son of God. A stroke of...
_They shall look on Him whom they have pierced_ LOOKING AT THE PIERCED ONE The text in relation I. TO THE JEWS. 1. In relation to the past. It was the fulfilment of prophecy. Zechariah Zechariah 1...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 19:37 The second of two texts fulfilled by the Roman soldiers’ actions in v. John 19:34 is Zechariah 12:10
Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...
CHAPTER 19 VER. 1. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged Him._ That is after he had said (Luke 23:22), "I will chastise Him and let Him go." The tradition is that He was first scourged with t...
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they pierced. See Zechariah 12:10....
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 19:31. THE JEWS THEREFORE, ETC.… FOR GREAT WAS THAT SABBATH DAY.—There was a twofold sanctity about the coming day, for it was not only the day at the beginning o...
EXPOSITION JOHN 19:1 (d) [Within the Praetorium.] The unjust scourging, and the crown of thorns. JOHN 19:1 Then PILATE THEREFORE TOOK JESUS, AND SCOURGED HIM. The force of the "therefore" may be se...
Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him (John 19:1). The scourging was a whipping that was done to examine the prisoners. It was a third degree technique of the Roman Empire. They did not h...
Psalms 22:16; Psalms 22:17; Revelation 1:7; Zechariah 12:10...
THE CALVARY CHAPTER John 19:16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We will suggest the steppingstone which immediately precedes the Calvary experiences of our Lord and then enlarge on the Calvary events. What we sa...
They shall look on him whom they have pierced — He was pierced by the soldier's spear. They who have occasioned his sufferings by their sins (and who has not?) shall either look upon him in this world...