John 19:1
Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and (1) scourged [him]. (1) The wisdom of the flesh chooses the least of two evils, but God curses that very wisdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and (1) scourged [him]. (1) The wisdom of the flesh chooses the least of two evils, but God curses that very wisdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. (2) Christ is again acquitted by the same mouth with which he was afterwards condemned.... [ Continue Reading ]
When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, (a) Crucify [him], crucify [him]. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him]: for I find no fault in him. (a) They will have him crucified whom, by an old custom of theirs, they should have stoned and hanged... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid; (3) Pilate's conscience fights for Christ, but it immediately yields, because it is not upheld with the singular power of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, (b) Gabbatha. (4) Pilate condemns himself first, with the same mouth with which he afterwards condemns Christ. (b) "Gabbatha" signifies... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led [him] away. (5) Christ fastens Satan, sin, and death to the cross.... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. (6) Christ, sitting upon the throne of the cross, is publicly proclaimed everlasting King of all people by the hand of him who condemned him for usurping a kingdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. (7) Christ signifies by the division of his garments amongst the bloody butchers (except for his... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. (8) Christ is a perfect example of all righteousness, not only in the keeping of the first, but also of the second table of the ten commandments.... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. (9) Christ when he has taken the vinegar, yields up the Spirit, indeed drinking up in our name that most bitter and severe cup of his Father's wrath.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now there was set a (c) vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth. (c) Galatinus witnesses out of the book called Sanhedrin that the Jews often gave those who were executed vinegar mixed with frankincense to drink, to make the... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away. (10) The body of Christ which was dead for a se... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) But one of the soldiers with a spear (d) pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. (11) Christ, being dead upon the cross, witnesses by a double sign that he alone is the true satisfaction, and the true washing for the believers. (d) This wound was a most manifest witnes... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. (12) Christ is openly buried, and in a famous place, Pilate... [ Continue Reading ]
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was (e) never man yet laid. (e) That no man might frivolously object to his resurrection, as though someone else that had been buried there had risen; Theophylact.... [ Continue Reading ]