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Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

John 19:5

Still wearing (φορῶν) the mocking symbols of royalty, an object of derision and pity, Jesus is led out, and the judge pointing to Him says, Ἴδε ὁ ἄνθρωπος, Ecce Homo, “Lo! the man,” as if inviting inspection of the pitiable figure, and convincing them how ridiculous it was to try to fix a charge of treason on so contemptible a person. ὁ ἄνθρωπος is used contemptuously, as in Plutarch, Them., xvi. 2, “the fellow,” “the creature”. Other instances in Holden's note in Plut., Them. The result is unexpected.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse John 19:5. _AND PILATE SAITH_] The word _Pilate_, which we supply in our version, is added by one MS., the later _Syriac_, later _Arabic_, and the _Coptic_. _BEHOLD THE MAN!_] The man who, acc...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD THE MAN! - It is probable that Pilate pointed to the Saviour, and his object evidently was to move them to compassion, and to convince them, by a sight of the Saviour himself, that he was innoc...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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. ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PILATE GIVES WAY TO THE JEWS. Pilate's next attempt is to persuade the Jews to be content with a lighter penalty than crucifixion. The prisoner is not dangerous enough, even to the religious authoriti...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    PILATE WENT FORTH AGAIN. He went out of his palace to the crowd upon the street, preceding Jesus, and again affirming that he found no fault with him, although he had scourged him. From Luke 23:16, we...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND OFFICERS SAW HIM, ETC. If Pilate had hoped to excite pity he was doomed to disappointment. Even his hard, heathen heart could not fathom the depths of Jewish hate. His repea...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    They brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early in the morning and they themselves did not enter into the headquarters, in case they should be defiled; but they wished to...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    JESUS AND PILATE (John 18:28-40 ; John 19:1-16)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEN. Therefore. CROWN OF THORNS. literally the thorny crown. Not the same expression as in John 19:2. THE PURPLE ROBE. To the horrible torture of the flagellum had been added the insults and cruelt...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    28 19:16. The Roman or Civil Trial As already stated, S. John omits both toe examination before Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin at an irregular time and place, at midnight and at -the Booths" (Matthew 26:...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Outside the Praetorium_; Pilate's appeal, -Behold the _man_;" the Jews" rejoinder -He made Himself _Son of God_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Then came Jesus_ Better, _Jesus_ THEREFORE _CAME_. The Evangelist repeats the details of John 19:2; they are details of a picture deeply imprinted on his memory. Whether or no he went into the Praeto...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΦΟΡΩ͂Ν. Not φέρων; _wearing_, not merely ‘bearing.’ The crown and the robe are now His permanent dress. The Evangelist repeats the details (John 19:2) as of a picture deeply imprinted in his memory: w...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    4–7. _Outside the Praetorium;_ Pilate’s appeal, ‘Behold _the Man;_’ the Jews’ rejoinder, ‘He made Himself _Son of God_.’...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    28–19:16. THE ROMAN OR CIVIL TRIAL As already stated, S. John omits both the examination before Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin at an irregular time and place, at midnight and at ‘the Booths’ (Matthew 26:5...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 1. Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2. And the soldiers plated a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. 3. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD THE MAN!— While thesoldiers were acting their impious buffooneries, Pilate entered, and, seeing the humiliating condition of the suffering Jesus, he thought that now at least the rage of his en...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PRONOUNCED INNOCENT _Text: John 19:1-11_ 1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple ga...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! THEN CAME JESUS FORTH, WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS, AND THE PURPLE ROBE. AND PIL...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    25-27 Compare Mat_26:71-75; Mar_14:69-72; Luk_22:58-62. 28-32 Compare Mat_27:1-2; Mar_15:1; Luk_23:1. 28 What insufferable hypocrites they were! Plotting the death of God's holy One, and afraid thei...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Outside the Prætorium. 'Behold the man.' 'Crucify Him.' 5. Behold the man!] Lat. _Ecce homo._ The words are gently and sympathetically spoken, and are intended to move compassion: 'This meek and suffe...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN CAME JESUS FORTH. — The verse describes the scene as the writer remembers it. The figure of the Lord whom he had himself followed and loved, and of whom he thinks as ascended to the throne of the...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JESUS ENDURES CONTEMPT John 19:1-9 Pilate was convinced of our Lord's innocence, and he adopted several expedients to save His life; he did everything, indeed, except to act with absolute justice and...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    FINAL EFFORT OF PILATE FOR HIS RELEASE John 19:4-16. “ _Then Pilate again came out_, _and spake to them_, _Behold_, _I lead Him out to you_, _that you may know that I find nothing criminal in Him. The...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 1-16. 1. The action of Pilate in connection with the scourging of Jesus and the giving Him up to the insults of the soldiers was evidently, as we see from...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “ _Pilate went out again and says to them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him._ 5. _Jesus therefore went out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! (6) When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying,...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _LESSONS FROM CALVARY_ ‘Behold the Man.’ John 19:5 Jesus said, “I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.” Year by year we see these words more perfectly fulfilled. The power of the Cross is...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN CAME JESUS FORTH,.... Out of the judgment hall, or place where he had been scourged, as soon as Pilate had said these words: WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS, AND THE PURPLE ROBE; with his temples sc...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And _Pilate_ saith unto them, Behold the man! Ver. 5. _Pilate saith, Behold the man_] _q.d._ If ye be men, take pity upon a ma...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Pilate went forth again_ Although he had given sentence that it should be as the Jews desired, and had delivered Jesus to the soldiers, to be scourged and crucified, he thought, if he were shown to t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CONDEMNATION OF JESUS. The scourging of Jesus:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THEN CAME JESUS FORTH, WEARING THE CROWN OF THORNS AND THE PURPLE ROBE. AND PILATE SAITH UNTO THEM, BEHOLD THE MAN!...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-18 Little did Pilate think with what holy regard these sufferings of Christ would, in after-ages, be thought upon and spoken of by the best and greatest of men. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He therefore, after Jesus had been scourged, and dressed up in this mock dress, brings him out again to the people to move their pity....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    John 19:5 Then G3767 Jesus G2424 came G1831 (G5627) out G1854 wearing G5409 (G5723) crown G4735 thorns...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And Pilate went out again and says to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you so that you may know that I find no crime in him.” Jesus therefore came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    The dreadful tragedy is still continued; and that it is so in the same line of thought and with the same object as before, is evident from the parallelism between chap. John 18:33-40 and chap. John 19...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WEARING (φορων). Present active participle of φορεω, an early frequentative of φερω, denoting a continual wearing, though not true here (only temporary). Jesus bore the mockery with kingly dignity...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    John 19:1. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Pilate saith unto them, Behold the Man_ ECCE HOMO “Behold the Man” I. FROM PILATE’S STANDPOINT. 1. He was a Roman, and apart from the interests of the empire, cared little for the creed or worship...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 19:5 Pilate probably said “BEHOLD THE MAN!” sarcastically, as if to say, “What possible threat could this man pose?” John may have included this detail in his account to ironically h...

  • The Gospels Compared

    PILATE HANDS JESUS OVER TO BE CRUCIFIED MATTHEW 27:15-26; MARK 15:6-15; LUKE 23:13-25; JOHN 18:38-40...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 19:1. THEREFORE (see Luke 23:22).—He was under the erroneous impression that this treatment of Jesus might soften the enmity of the Jews toward the Prisoner. SCOU...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 7:14; John 1:29;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Came Jesus forth. From the Praetorium. Wearing [φ ο ρ ω ν]. Not ferwn, bearing, but the frequentative form of that verb, denoting an habitual or continuous bearing; hence, wearing, as though it were...

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