Accusation [α ι τ ι α ν]. Lit., cause, and so rendered by Wyc. Tynd., cause of his death. The word accusation is compounded with the Latin causa, a cause. It is the cause of his condemnation and suffering.
Verse 37. _HIS ACCUSATION_] It was a common custom to affix a label to the cross, giving a statement of the crime for which the person suffered. This is still the case in China, when a person is cruci...
AND SET UP OVER HIS HEAD - John says John 19:19 that Pilate wrote the title and put it upon the cross. Probably Pilate wrote it or caused it to be written, and directed the soldiers to set it up. A ma...
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 CRUCIFIXION (Mark 15:21 *, Luke 23:26). Mt. still follows Mk. clearly, the chief alterations being (_a)_ gall (Matthew 27:34) for myrrh (this is due to...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man, Simon by name, and they impressed him into their service, to bear Jesus' Cross. When they had come to the place which is called Golgotha (which means...
SET UP OVER HIS HEAD. This is not therefore the inscription written by Pilate and put upon the cross before it left Pilate's presence (John 19:19); this was brought after the dividing of the garments;...
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30. St Mark's account differs little from St Matthew's. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the rob...
_and set up over his head his accusation written_ It was the Roman custom to place on the cross over the criminal's head, a _titulus_, or placard, stating the crime for which he suffered. St John reco...
THE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30 St Mark’s account differs little from St Matthew’s. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the robbe...
ΤῊΝ ΑἸΤΊΑΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. It was the Roman custom to place on the cross over the criminal’s head, a _titulus_, or placard, stating the crime for which he suffered. St John records Pilate’s refusal to alter th...
VER 35. AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, AND PARTED HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS: THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, THEY PARTED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND UPON MY VESTURE DID THEY CAST...
_JESUS' DEATH AND BURIAL MATTHEW 27:32-66:_ The power of the cross makes salvation possible. The sign over His head read, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." He is far more though, "Now to the King...
ΈΠΈΘΗΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G2007) помещать, ставить, ΕΠΆΝΩ (G1883) с _gen._ над. ΑΙΤΊΑ (G156) причина, вина, ΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΈΝΗΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать. Надпись была сдела...
THE DEATH OF CHRIST Crucifixion and accusation TEXT: 27:35-37 35 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots; 36 and they sat and watched him there. 37 And the...
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof he would not drink They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drin...
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...
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...
THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. — This was what was technically known as the _titulus_ — the bill, or placard, showing who the condemned person was, and why he was punished. Each Gospel gives it i...
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...
: this fact is mentioned out of its proper place. t is probable that the placard with the accusation was fixed up before the cross was erected. As it stands in Mt.'s narrative, it looks like an after-...
_Crucifixion_ (Mark 15:21-27; Luke 23:26; Luke 23:35-38). This part of the story begins with the closing words of Matthew 27:31 : “they led
“WHERE THEY CRUCIFIED HIM” Matthew 27:32-44 He will not drink what would dull His keen sense of the momentous issues of the Cross. Those taunts were true. None who save themselves can save others. Th...
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...
(9) And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. (9) He is pronounced the true Messiah, even by those who reject him....
This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. St. Mark has only, this is the King of the Jews; as also St. Luke. St. John, Jesus, of Nazareth, King of the Jews, which might be the whole inscription. It was the...
THE CRUCIFIXION Matthew 27:35-38; Luke 23:33-38; John 19:18-24; Mark 15:24-28. “ _And it was the third hour_,
"And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. (33) And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, ...
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...
Matthew 27:37._And placed over his head. _What is briefly noticed by Matthew and Mark is more fully related by Luke, (Luke 23:38,) that the inscription was written in three languages. John also descri...
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 SET UP OVER HIS HEAD HIS ACCUSATION WRITTEN,.... The Evangelist John calls it a "title", John 19:19, and Luke, a "superscription", Luke 23:38, and Mark, the "superscription of his accusation", Mar...
And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Ver. 37. _This is Jesus, the King of the Jews_] Pilate (by a special providence of God), intending nothing less, g...
_And set over his head his accusation_ That is, a superscription, containing the substance of his pretended crime, written in capital letters, and in these remarkable words, THIS IS JESUS, (John adds,...
AND SET UP OVER HIS HEAD HIS ACCUSATION WRITTEN, THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. The cruel mockery finally began to pall upon the soldiers; they proceeded to carry out the sentence. Taking off th...
THE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH....
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...
35-44 It was usual to put shame upon malefactors, by a writing to notify the crime for which they suffered. So they set up one over Christ's head. This they designed for his reproach, but God so over...
Ver. 35-37. Mark saith, MARK 15:24, When they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. And th...
Matthew 27:37 And G2532 up G2007 (G5656) over G1883 His G846 head G2776 the G846 accusation G156 written...
‘And they set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.' Then we come to the climax of the passage, ‘they set up over His head His accusation written, THIS IS JESUS...
JESUS IS PUT TO DEATH AS THE KING OF THE JEWS (27:32-37). That Matthew saw the thought of the crucifixion of his Master as hard to bear comes out especially in these few short verses. There is no emph...
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...
This section describes the _central fact of the world's history_. The accounts of the four Evangelists agree perfectly as to the main points; but each mentions circumstances omitted by the others. Mat...
Matthew 27:37. AND THEY SET UP OVER HIS HEAD. Not necessarily the soldiers. It was customary for the person to be crucified to carry ‘a title,' suspended from his neck, to the place of execution. Pila...
HIS ACCUSATION (την αιτιαν αυτου). The title (τιτλος, John 19:19) or placard of the crime (the inscription, ε επιγραφη) which was carried before the victim or hung around his neck as he walked to e...
THIS IS Compare (Mark 15:26); (Luke 23:38); (John 19:19). These accounts supplement, but do not contradict one another. No one of the Evangelists quotes the entire inscription. All have "The King of...
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 27:32. _And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross._ Perhaps they were afraid that Christ would die from exhaustion; so they compell...
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...
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...
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 27:33. _And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not...
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...
THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Luke says this was written in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, so that everyone would be able to read it. The Jewish leaders objected to this, but Pilate said: "What I ha...
_And they crucified Him, and parted His garments, casting lots._ THE WATCH BY THE CROSS The thought of those who with tender heart watch by the cross of Jesus. I. The first thought concerns the vis...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:37 The CHARGE was written “in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek” (John 19:20) as a warning to any who would dare rebel against Rome....
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;...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:35. THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED, ETC.—Omitted in R.V. It ought not to be questioned that the words were interpolated by the copyists, from John 19:24 (_Scrivener_). Matthew...
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...
John 19:19; Luke 23:38; Mark 15:26...
(CF. MARK 15:26; LUKE 23:38; JOHN 19:19)— Why are all the Gospel accounts of the inscription on the cross different? PROBLEM: The wording of the accusation above Christ’s head on the cross is rendered...
It was the manner of the Romans, when they crucified any man, to publish the cause of his death in capital letters, placed over the head of the person. Now see how the wisdom and providence of God pow...