a crown of thorns It cannot be ascertained what especial kind of thorn was used. The soldiers, as Bp Ellicott remarks, would take what first came to hand, utterly careless whether it was likely to inflict pain or no.
King of the Jews Cp. ch. Matthew 2:2, and Matthew 27:37.
MATTHEW 27:29 evne,paixan {B} The imperfect tense may be the result of conformation to e;tupton (ver. Matthew 27:30). In any case, however, the combination of a...
Verse 29. _A CROWN OF THORNS_] στεφανον εξ ακανθων. It does not appear that this crown was intended to be an instrument of _punishment_ or _torture_ to his head, but rather to render him ridiculous;...
See also Mark 15:15; John 19:1. Matthew 27:27 INTO THE COMMON HALL - The original word here means, rather, the governor’s palace or dwelling....
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
THE SOLDIERS MOCK JESUS (Mark 15:16 *, which Mt. rearranges and slightly expands). Lk. (Luke 23:11) makes something of the kind happen at Herod's house, but there is some doubt about the text....
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus to the military headquarters, and collected to him the whole of the detachment. They stripped him of his clothes and put a soldier's purple cloak upon him; and...
CROWN. Greek. _Stephanos_ (used by kings and victors); not _diadema,_ as in Revelation 12:3; Revelation 13:1; Revelation 19:12. UPON. Greek. _epi._ App-104. IN. Greek. ep
JESUS IS MOCKED BY THE ROMAN SOLDIERS Mark 15:16-19; John 19:1-3 St Luke, who records the mockery of Herod’s soldiers, makes no mention of these insults on the part of the Roman guard....
ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΔΕΞΙΑ͂Ι for ἐπὶ τὴν δεξιάν. 29. ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. It cannot be ascertained what especial kind of thorn was used. The soldiers, as Bp. Ellicott remarks, would take what first came to hand, utter...
VER 27. THEN THE SOLDIERS OF THE GOVERNOR TOOK JESUS INTO THE COMMON HALL, AND GATHERED UNTO HIM THE WHOLE BAND OF SOLDIERS. 28. AND THEY STRIPPED HIM, AND PUT ON HIM A SCARLET ROBE. 29. AND WHEN THEY...
_JESUS WAS MOCKED BY THE SOLDIERS MATTHEW 27:27-31:_ Jesus was mocked and humiliated in every possible way. He was dressed in a scarlet robe like a king. They probably decided that a king needs a crow...
ΠΛΈΞΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΛΈΚΩ (G4120) плести, ΣΤΈΦΑΝΟΣ (G4735) венец, венок. ΆΚΑΝΘΑ (G173) колючка, ΈΠΈΘΗΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G2007) возлагать. Терновый венец был дешевой (и пр...
DISCOURSE: 1409 THE INDIGNITIES OFFERED TO OUR LORD Matthew 27:26. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the Gover...
AND WHEN THEY HAD PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS— Though it is unquestionable that they intended hereby to expose our Lord's pretended royalty to ridicule and contempt, as well as by the purple robe and mo...
SECTION 73 JESUS IS TRIED BY PILATE, CONDEMNED AND SCOURGED (Parallels: Mark 15:2-20; Luke 23:1-25; John 18:28 to John 19:16) TEXT: 27:
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 15:16....
29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3. 30 See Isa_50:6. 31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10. 31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
JESUS IS MOCKED BY THE ROMAN SOLDIERS (Mark 15:16; John 19:1)....
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
A CROWN OF THORNS. — The word is too vague to enable us to identify the plant with certainty, but most writers have fixed on the _Zizyphus Spina Christi,_ known locally as the _Nebk,_ a shrub growing...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
_Jesus the sport of the soldiery_ (Mark 15:16-20)....
THE STAIN WATER COULD NOT WASH AWAY Matthew 27:22-31 No judge ought to have asked the crowd what he should do. But every man has to do with Christ. He is ever standing before the bar of conscience, a...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
The crowning of thorns had preceded the time, when Jesus was made over by Pilate to the Jews. As the Jews have no preterpluperfect tense, we may conjecture that those words, _circumdederunt, posuerunt...
JESUS SCOURGED AND MOCKED Mark 15:19; John 19:1-3; Matthew 27:26-30. “ _And having scourged Jesus_, _he delivered Him up_, _that He may be crucified_.” As it was customary with the Romans to precede t...
"Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. (28) And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. (29) And when they had...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
AND WHEN THEY HAD PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS,.... What sort of thorn this crown was made of, whether of the bramble, or of the white thorn, is not very material b: the word used in the Syriac version,...
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put _it_ upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! Ver. 29. _A...
_Then the soldiers took Jesus_ The soldiers, having received orders to crucify Jesus, carried him into the common hall, or prætorium, in Pilate's palace, after they had scourged him. Here they added t...
A REED; in mockery, as a sceptre....
AND WHEN THEY HAD PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS, THEY PUT IT UPON HIS HEAD, AND A REED IN HIS RIGHT HAND; AND THEY BOWED THE KNEE BEFORE HIM, AND MOCKED HIM, SAYING, HAIL, KING OF THE JEWS!...
Jesus condemned, and mocked by the soldiers:...
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
26-30 Crucifixion was a death used only among the Romans; it was very terrible and miserable. A cross was laid on the ground, to which the hands and feet were nailed, it was then lifted up and fixed u...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:31"....
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II Further, it were irrational in us, who have heard that the Lord was crowned with thorns,[169] Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments He is crown...
Matthew 27:29 When G2532 twisted G4120 (G5660) crown G4735 of G1537 thorns G173 put G2007 (G5656) on...
‘And they knelt down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” ' But central to it all was the desire to mock His ‘claim' to Kingship, and the horseplay no doubt began early and co...
THE MOCK ADULATION OF THE SOLDIERS (27:27-31). Having been sentenced and committed to crucifixion Jesus now became fair game. It was not often that the soldiers had a royal claimant that they could do...
THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54). In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as ‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
a ‘And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe, and plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand.' Then began the mockery and they wanted Him dressed for the...
The account of Matthew is least detailed, but contains two incidents (Matthew 27:19; Matthew 27:24) peculiar to itself. The Jews first attempted to obtain Pilate's consent to the death of Jesus, witho...
Matthew 27:29. A CROWN OF THORNS. This would wound as well as mock Him, though the latter was the chief design. It is difficult to determine what kind of thorns was used. Alford says: ‘Hasselquist, a...
A CROWN OF THORNS (στεφανον εξ ακανθων). They wove a crown out of thorns which would grow even in the palace grounds. It is immaterial whether they were young and tender thorn bushes, as probable in...
Matthew 27:29 Jesus and Tiberius. I. Consider the equity of mankind, which was at the same moment awarding to Jesus derision, torture, death, and to Tiberius the most servile and adulatory homage. Th...
Matthew 27:24 Behold the Man. I. Behold the Man, and see who He is. We see that He is a real and actual man. Men had been on the outlook for that Son of God who should come down in the likeness of ma...
Matthew 27:26 _(with Mark 15:15)_ Christ on the Cross. Christ on the Cross is our subject. You know His history, And when you read, "The people stood beholding" you will be ready to add, "And no won...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
Our Lord was brought before the Roman governor Pilate. He was anxious to let Jesus go; but he was a weak-minded man, easily swayed by the noisy cry of the people, prompted by the chief priests and eld...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
A CROWN OUT OF THORNY BRANCHES. Both to make fun of his claim to be the king of the Jews, and to cause him as much pain as possible....
_And when they had platted a crown of thorns._ MOCKED OF THE SOLDIERS The shameful spectacle! What element of scorn is lacking? Roman soldiers mocking a supposed rival of Caesar are sure to go to the...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:28 PUT A SCARLET ROBE ON HIM. Roman soldiers in Jerusalem often played cruel games with condemned prisoners, particularly traitors. Mark and John describe the cloak as “purp...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:27 As he tells of the crucifixion, Matthew focuses on the fulfillment of OT prophecies about the suffering servant (Isaiah 42:1;...
ROMAN SOLDIERS MOCK JESUS MATTHEW 27:27-31; MARK 15:16-20; JOHN 19:1-3; MATTHEW 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesu
1-66 CHAPTER 27 Ver. 1. _But when the morning was come_ (Syr. _when it was dawn_), _all the chief priests_, &c. "See here," says S. Jerome, "the eagerness of the Priests for evil," _their feet were s...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:27. THE COMMON HALL.—Literally, the _Prætorium_, a word which, applied originally to the tent of the prætor, or general, and so to the headquarters of the camp, had come t...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
Hebrews 12:2; Hebrews 12:3; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 53:3; Jeremiah 20:7;...