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 John 19:4-6, with the design of inducing the Jewish leaders to yield with respect to the demand for... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him;_ 2, _and the soldiers, having plaited a crown of thorns, placed it upon his head and arrayed him in a purple robe;and they said, Hail, king of the Jews! And they struck him with rods._ ” Pilate had ascended his tribunal to pronounce the liberatio... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _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. And he says to them, Behold the man!_ 6. _When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw hi... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _The Jews answered him_, _We have a law, and according to our law, he ought to die; for he made himself Son of God._ 8. _When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid._ 9. _And he entered into the Praetorium again_, _and says to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answe... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Pilate says to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release thee and power to crucify thee?_ 11. _Jesus answered_, _Thou wouldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above; therefore, he that delivered me unto thee is guilty of a greater... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 12. “ _From this time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out_, _saying, If thou releasest this man, thou art not Caesar's friend; for whoever makes himself a king, opposes Caesar._ ” ᾿Εκ τούτου : _from_ and _by reason of_ this word uttered by Jesus; comp. John 6:66. John seems to... [ Continue Reading ]
a. “ _Having therefore heard these words_, _Pilate brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat, in the place called the Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha._ 14. _Now it was the Preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, Behold your King!_ 15. _They cried o... [ Continue Reading ]
VV. 16B-18. “ _Now they took Jesus;and, bearing his cross_, _he went out of the city [going] to the place called the place of the skull, in Hebrew Golgotha_, 18, _where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst._ ” These two verses sum up very briefly t... [ Continue Reading ]
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: John 19:23-24; 4. The filial legacy: John 19:25-27; 5. The death: John 19:28-30; 6. The breaking of the legs and the spearthrust: Joh... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Pilate also caused an inscription to be made and to be put upon the cross; there was written: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews._ 20. _Many of the Jews therefore read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, one for every soldier, and then the tunic;now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout._ 24. _They said therefore one to another:Let us not rend it, but let us cast lots for it whose it... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Now there stood near the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene._ 26. _Jesus, therefore, seeing his mother and beside her the disciple whom he loved, says to his mother_, _Woman, behold thy son._ 27. _Then he says to the disciple, Behold thy... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled_, _says, I thirst._ 29. _There was a vessel there full of vinegar; and the soldiers, having filled a sponge with vinegar and having put it on the end of a hyssop stalk_, _brought it to his mouth._ 30. _Whe... [ Continue Reading ]
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 “a great day.” In that case it was a weekly Sabbath, as being Saturday, and also the feast Sabbath.... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first, then of the other who was crucified with him._ 33. _But, when they came to Jesus, seeing that he was already dead_, _they did not break his legs;_ 34, _but_ _one of the soldiers pierced his side with his spear, and immediately there cam... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _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 fulfilled: No one of his bones shall be broken._ 37. _And another word also says: They shall look on him who... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _After this Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, went and asked Pilate that they might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away the body of Jesus._ 39. _Nicodemus, who at the first came to Jesus by nigh... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre wherein no one had ever yet been laid._ 42. _It was there that they laid Jesus, because of the Preparation of the Jews; for the sepulchre was near._ ” According to Matthew, the sepulchre belonged to Jos... [ Continue Reading ]