Verse John 18:39. _BUT YE HAVE A CUSTOM_] Nothing relative to the origin or reason of this custom is known. Commentators have swam in an ocean of conjecture on this point. They have lost their labour...
See the notes at Matthew 27:15....
III. “I LAY DOWN MY LIFE, THAT I MIGHT TAKE IT AGAIN.” Chapter s 18-21 CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The Arrest in the Garden. (John 18:1 .)_ 2. Before Annas and Caiaphas; Peter's Denial. (John 18:12 .) 3. Befo...
JOHN 18:28 TO JOHN 19:16. THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE. From Caiaphas Jesus is brought to the Præ torium, the governor's residence, either Herod's palace in the W. part of the city, or the Antonia, near th...
YE HAVE. CUSTOM, THAT. SHOULD RELEASE UNTO YOU ONE AT THE PASSOVER. By. comparison of the other accounts it is evident that, in the interval, before his effort to release Jesus according to the custom...
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...
THE ARREST IN THE GARDEN (John 18:1-11)...
CUSTOM. Greek _sunetheia._ Only here and in 1 Corinthians 11:16. AT. Greek _en._ App-104. WILL YE... ? = do ye wish. ? Greek. _boulomai._ App-102. Only occurrence of this word in John. THE KING OF T...
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:...
_Outside the Praetorium_; Pilate pronounces Him innocent and offers to release Him in honour of the feast: the Jews prefer Barabbas....
_ye have a custom_ Nothing is known of this custom beyond what is told us in the Gospels. Prisoners were sometimes released at Rome at certain festivals, and it would be quite in harmony with the conc...
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...
ΣΥΝΉΘΕΙΑ. Nothing is known of this custom beyond what the Gospels tell us. It may have been a memorial of the deliverance from Egypt. But prisoners were sometimes released at Rome at certain festivals...
38–40. _Outside the Praetorium;_ Pilate pronounces Him innocent and offers to release Him for the Feast: the Jews prefer Barabbas....
VER 38. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE WENT OUT AGAIN TO THE JEWS, AND SAYS TO THEM, I FIND IN HIM NO FAULT AT ALL. 39. BUT YOU HAVE A CUSTOM, THAT I SHOULD RELEASE TO YOU ONE AT THE PASSOVER: WILL YOU...
_JESUS IS TRIED BY PILATE -- JOHN 18:28-40:_ Jesus was dragged from one ungodly and illegal trial to another. They did not even have any real charges against Jesus. Pilate asked, "What charges are you...
TRIED BY PILATE, THE ROMAN AUTHORITY _Text: John 18:28-40_ 28 They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, tha...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 18:28-40 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 18:— In our last chapter we contemplated the Lord Jesus in the presence of Annas, the real...
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? BUT YE HAVE A CUSTOM, THAT I SHOULD RELEASE UNTO YOU ONE A...
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...
CHRIST BEFORE ANNAS, CAIAPHAS, AND PILATE 1-14. Christ's arrest and trial before Annas (cp. Matthew 26:30 = Mark 14:26 = Luke 22:39). The narrative is now parallel with the synoptic account, with whic...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 18 JUDAS *BETRAYS JESUS 18:1-11 V1 After Jesus had said this prayer, he left with his *disciples. They crossed the vall...
AT THE PASSOVER. — Comp. _Excursus F: The Day of the Crucifixion of our Lord._ THE KING OF THE JEWS. — These words are of course said in mockery, but not at Jesus who was still in the palace. They se...
XIX. _ JESUS BEFORE PILATE._ "They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the palace: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but might eat t...
_Pilate declares the result of his examination_....
to John 19:16. _Jesus before Pilate_....
THE KING OF TRUTH John 18:33-40 There was a tone of satire in Pilate's question: “Thou poor, worn, tear-stained outcast, forsaken by every friend in this hour of need- _art thou a king?_ ” Human ears...
From the sacred hours of teaching and prayer our Lord passed to the final acts in His mighty work. This brought Him to Gethsemane, where we have a revelation of His majesty and His meekness. He suffer...
PILATE SEEKS TO RELEASE HIM IN LIEU OF BARABBAS Matthew 27:15-26; Mark 15:6-15; John 18:39-40; Luke 23:13-25. “ An
FOURTH PART: THE PASSION. 18:1-19:42. The intention of the evangelist, in the following narrative, is certainly not to give a narration as complete as possible of the Passion, as if no narrative of th...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 28-40. The bearing of John 18:28 on the question as to whether Jesus died on the 14th or the 15th of the month Nisan, and, in connection with this, whether...
“ _But you have a custom that I should release unto you a prisoner at the Passover feast. Will you therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews?_ 40. _They all cried out therefore again_, _s...
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgement: and it was early, and they themselves went not into the judgement hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover....
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...
39._But you have a custom. _Pilate was all along pondering in what way he might save Christ’s life; but, the people being so fiercely enraged, he attempted to keep a middle path, in order to allay the...
The history of our Lord's last moments begins after the words that He addressed to His Father. We shall find even in this part of it, the general character of that which is related in this Gospel (acc...
BUT YE HAVE A CUSTOM,.... Not a law, either of God or man's, but a custom; and which was not originally observed at the feast of the passover, and perhaps was not of any long standing; but what the Ro...
But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? Ver. 39. _But ye have a custom_] An ungain, ungodly custom it...
_Then Pilate entered into the judgment-hall again_ See the note on Matthew 27:11. It seems, as the governor had heard an honourable report of Jesus, and observed in his silence, under the accusations...
YE HAVE A CUSTOM; Matthew 27:15....
Christ before Pilate. Matthew 27:1-25....
The defense of Jesus:...
BUT YE HAVE A CUSTOM THAT I SHOULD RELEASE UNTO YOU ONE AT THE PASSOVER; WILL YE, THEREFORE, THAT I RELEASE UNTO YOU THE KING OF THE JEWS?...
BETRAYED AND ARRESTED (vs.1-12) The Son of God goes calmly, steadily on to the great conquest of Calvary, each step of the way perfectly measured by divine wisdom. The fact of His going into the gard...
33-40 Art thou the King of the Jews? that King of the Jews who has been so long expected? Messiah the Prince; art thou he? Dost thou call thyself so, and wouldest thou be thought so? Christ answered...
Whence this custom came is uncertain; most probably from the Romans, who in some honour of this great festival of the Jews, and in humour of them, granted them the life of any criminal whom they desir...
John 18:39 But G1161 you G5213 have G2076 (G5748) custom G4914 that G2443 release G630 (G5661) someone...
“But you have a custom that I should release to you someone at the Passover. Do you wish me therefore to release to you the King of the Jews?” Pilate had an inspiration. He saw a wonderful get out. T...
JESUS BEFORE PILATE (JOHN 18:28). Jesus' examination before Caiaphas is summed up in two sentences, ‘Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas' and ‘they lead Jesus from Caiaphas'. To John that examination had...
John 18:39. BUT YE HAVE A CUSTOM, THAT I SHOULD RELEASE UNTO YOU ONE AT THE PASSOVER; WILL YE THEREFORE THAT I RELEASE UNTO YOU THE SING OF THE JEWS? The origin of the custom thus alluded to is unknow...
From the examination before Caiaphas we are taken to the trial before Pilate. The scene is in every respect one of the most remarkable in the Gospel, alike in its selection of incidents and vividness...
A CUSTOM (συνηθεια). Old word for intimacy, intercourse, from συνηθης (συν, ηθος), in N.T. only here, 1 Corinthians 8:7; 1 Corinthians 11:16. This custom, alluded to in Mark 15:6;...
28 _; Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment:_ That is to say, Pilate's hall. Pilate, at that time, was probably residing in one of the old and sumptuous palaces of Herod, there...
CONTENTS: Jesus' betrayal and arrest. Peter's denial. Jesus condemned and Barabbas released. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Judas, priests, officers, Pharisees, Peter, Malchus, Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, Barabbas,...
John 18:1. _He went over the brook Cedron._ Cedron, or Kidron, was the name of the deep valley, as well as of the brook which ran through it, on the east between Jerusalem and the mount of Olives. It...
BUT ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM YOU HAVE. See notes on Matthew 27:15-17. Note that Pilate made some attempt to set Jesus free. BARABBAS. See note on Mark 15:7...
TO THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE. For notes on Jesus before Pilate, see Matthew 27:1-26. The order of events is given in the notes on Matthew. TO KEEP THEMSELVES RITUALLY CLEAN. They would do anything to have...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 18:39 As in v. John 18:28 (see note), AT THE PASSOVER refers to the entire seven-day festival....
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 18:1 These chapters tell of Jesus’ betrayal by Judas (John 18:1), his informal hearing before Annas (John 18:12)
PILATE HANDS JESUS OVER TO BE CRUCIFIED MATTHEW 27:15-26; MARK 15:6-15; LUKE 23:13-25; JOHN 18:38-40...
CHAPTER 18 I have commented on the Passion (Matthew 27 and 28.), I shall therefore only briefly touch on those points which are related by S. John only. Ver. 1. _When Jesus had spoken these words, He...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 18:28. THEN LED THEY JESUS, ETC.—The Evangelist presupposes the trial before the Sanhedrin, and its issue. Jesus had been condemned to death. But the Jews had no...
EXPOSITION B. THE HOUR HAS COME. JOHN 18:1 John 19:42.—1. _The outer glorification of Christ in his Passion_....
Shall we turn to John's gospel, chapter 18. Jesus has finished His prayer, which we mentioned last week should properly be entitled the Lord's Prayer. And now, from wherever this prayer was offered, m...
John 18:33; Luke 23:17; Luke 23:20; Mark 15:6; Mark 15:8;...
Ye have a custom. The word sunhqeia, custom, originally means intimacy, habitual intercourse, and thence naturally passes into the meaning of habit or custom. Only John puts the statement of this cust...