Geneva Study Bible Commentary
John 19:8
(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.
(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.
Verse John 19:8. _HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID_] While Jesus was accused only as a disturber of the peace of the nation, which accusation Pilate knew to be _false_, he knew he could deliver him, because th...
WHEN PILATE THEREFORE HEARD THAT SAYING - That they had accused him of blasphemy. As this was not the charge on which they had arraigned him before his bar, he had not before heard it, and it now conv...
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. ...
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...
WHEN PILATE HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID. The calmness and majesty of the prisoner had profoundly moved the stern Roman. Man had never endured with such patience and kingly dignity. Now w...
JESUS AND PILATE (John 18:28-40 ; John 19:1-16)...
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...
SAYING. Greek. _logos._ See Mark 9:32. THE MORE AFRAID. A dreadful presentiment was growing in Pilate's mind, due to what he may have heard of the Lord's miracles, to His bearing throughout the trial...
_Inside the Praetorium_; Christ's origin is asked and not told; the origin of authority is told unasked....
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:...
_that saying_ Better, THIS WORD (_logos_), the charge of blasphemy. _he was the more afraid_ The message from his wife and the awe which Christ's presence was probably inspiring had already in some d...
Τ. Τ. ΛΌΓΟΝ. THIS WORD: it is no mere ‘saying’ (ῥῆμα); like the word of Caiaphas, it has more meaning than the speakers know. It intensifies Pilate’s disquietude. The message from his wife and the awe...
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...
8–11. _Inside the Praetorium;_ Christ’s origin is asked and not told; the origin of authority is told unasked....
VER 6. WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS THEREFORE AND OFFICERS SAW HIM, THEY CRIED OUT, SAYING, CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM. PILATE SAYS TO THEM, TAKE YOU HIM, AND CRUCIFY HIM: FOR I FIND NO FAULT IN HIM. 7. THE J...
ΉΚΟΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, ΜΆΛΛΟΝ (G3123) более, ΈΦΟΒΉΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΦΟΒΈΟΜΑΙ (G5399) пугаться, бояться....
WHEN PILATE THEREFORE HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID;— When Pilate heard that Jesus called himself the Son of God, he was more perplexed than ever. Knowing the obstinacy of the Jews in all...
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...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 19:1-11 Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— Nowhere in Scripture, perhaps, is there a more striking and vivid demonstration of the so...
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid; WHEN PILATE HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID - the name "SON OF GOD," the lofty sense evidently attached to it by His Jewi...
7 It appears on the surface, that Pilate's question, when he heard that the Lord claimed to be the Son of God, was ignored. Not so. Since the Lord was the Son of God it was far beneath His dignity to...
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...
Inside the Prætorium. Jesus refuses to satisfy Pilate's curiosity as to His origin. 8. The more afraid] viz. of allowing Jesus to be unjustly executed. In spite of superficial scepticism (John 19:38),...
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...
WHEN PILATE THEREFORE HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID. — That is, as the verses which follow show, he was the more afraid because of his wonder who Jesus really was. He must have heard of so...
John 19:7-12 _a_. _Second private examination by Pilate_....
to John 19:16. _Jesus before Pilate_....
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...
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...
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...
“ _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...
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...
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,...
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...
8._He was the more afraid. _These words may be explained in two ways. The first is, that Pilate dreaded lest some blame should be imputed to him, if a tumult arose, because he had not condemned Christ...
Pilate (chapter 19) gives way to his usual inhumanity. In the account, however, given in this Gospel, the Jews are prominent, as the real authors (as far as man was concerned) of the Lord's death. Jea...
WHEN PILATE THEREFORE HEARD THAT SAYING,.... That Jesus had asserted himself to be the Son of God, and that the Jews had a law to put such a person to death that was guilty of such blasphemy: HE WAS...
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid; Ver. 8. _He was the more afraid_] Christ's innocence did before triumph in Pilate's conscience. But now, that he hears that he made hi...
_When Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid_ He before feared to shed innocent blood, and now he became more afraid than ever to take his life; suspecting, probably, that the account which...
HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID; this was to Pilate a new charge. He saw that the Jews were resolved to kill him, though innocent; and as he claimed to be the Son of God, he was therefore more anxious to relea...
Pilate again examines Jesus:...
WHEN PILATE THEREFORE HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID,...
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...
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...
It should seem that the Romans permitted judgments to the Jews according to their own laws, which the Roman governor was to see executed; or else, seeing the rabble in such a heat and disorder, he fea...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews For Him it behoved to be made a sacrifice on behalf of all Gentiles, who "was led as a sheep for a victim, and, like a lamb voiceless before his shearer, so opened no...
John 19:8 Therefore G3767 when G3753 Pilate G4091 heard G191 (G5656) that G5126 saying G3056 was G5399 more...
‘When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out, saying, “Crucify him, crucify him.” Pilate says to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him.” T...
THE TRIAL CONTINUES (JOHN 19:1 A). John has made clear in chapter 18 that, in facing His trial by His fellow Jews, Jesus had nothing to hide, although no details of their actual attempts to find prose...
John 19:8-9. WHEN PILATE THEREFORE HEARD THIS WORD, HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID; AND HE WENT AGAIN INTO THE PALACE, AND SAITH UNTO JESUS, WHENCE ART THOU? The remarkable expression by which the Evangelist...
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...
HE WAS THE MORE AFRAID (μαλλον εφοβηθη). First aorist passive indicative of φοβεομα. He was already afraid because of his wife's message (Matthew 27:19). The claim of Jesus to deity excited Pilate'...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
_When Pilate therefore heard that_ PILATE’S SECOND INTERVIEW WITH CHRIST I. THE STARTLED INQUIRY--on the part of Pilate (John 19:9). 1. Its occasion (1) Not the outcry of the Jews for Christ’s dea...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 19:8 Pilate WAS EVEN MORE AFRAID. See the reference to Pilate’s wife’s dream (Matthew 27:19)....
PILATE HANDS JESUS OVER TO BE CRUCIFIED MATTHEW 27:15-26; MARK 15:6-15; LUKE 23:13-25; JOHN 18:38-40...
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...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 19:9. WHENCE … JESUS GAVE NO ANSWER.—The answer had already been given (John 18:36: see also John 8:25; John 10:24
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...
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...
Acts 14:11; John 19:13...
The more afraid. "These words of the Jews produced an effect on Pilate for which they were not prepared. The saying gives strength to a dreadful presentiment which was gradually forming within him. Al...
He was the more afraid — He seems to have been afraid before of shedding innocent blood....