Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
John 19:14
And it was the preparation of the Passover and about the sixth hour; and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
And it was the preparation of the Passover and about the sixth hour; and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
JOHN 19:14 e[kth Instead of “about the sixth hour” several witnesses (ac Dsupp L Xtxt D Y 053 72 88 123*mg 151 Eusebius Nonnus) read “about the third hour” (w[ra …...
Verse John 19:14. _IT WAS THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER_] That is, the time in which they were just preparing to kill the paschal lamb. Critics differ widely concerning the time of our Lord's cruci...
THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER - See the notes at Mark 15:42. THE SIXTH HOUR - Twelve o’clock noon. Mark says Mark 15:25 that it was the third hour. See the difficulty explained in the notes at that...
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...
IT WAS THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER, AND THE SIXTH HOUR. John marks the exact time when this remarkable judgment was rendered. It was about six o'clock in the morning, on Friday, the day of prepara...
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...
JESUS AND PILATE (John 18:28-40 ; John 19:1-16)...
THE PREPARATION: i.e. the day before the Passover was eaten "at even" on the 14th Nisan. All four Gospels state that our Lord was entombed on the Preparation Day (verses: John 19:31; John 19:42.Matthe...
_the preparation_ i.e. the day before the Passover, the -eve," See Appendix A. _and about the sixth hour_ The best MSS. have -it was" for -and;" it was _about the sixth hour_. In two abrupt sentences...
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_; the power from above controlled from below pronounces public sentence against the Innocent....
ἮΝ ΔῈ Π. Τ. Π., ὭΡΑ ἮΝ ὩΣ ἝΚΤΗ. In two abrupt sentences S. John calls special attention to the day and hour; _now it was the eve of the Passover: it was about the sixth hour_. It is difficult to belie...
12–16. _Outside the Praetorium_. The power from above controlled from below pronounces public sentence of death on the Innocent....
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...
Ver 12. But the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar. 13. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he broug...
AND IT WAS THE PREPARATION— The governor being frightened into compliance, contrary to his inclination, was angry with the priests for stirring up the people to such a pitch of madness, and resolved t...
CONDEMNED AND CRUCIFIED _Text: John 19:12-22_ 12 Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend; every one that maket...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 19:12-24 The following is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The death of Christ may be viewed from five main viewpoints. From the standpoint...
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! AND (OR, 'NOW') IT WAS THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER. This is another of the pa...
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...
St. John sees prophetic significance in Pilate's words, 'Behold your king,' and therefore times them precisely. Pilate, the representative of the Gentile world, sees in Jesus, whom Israel rejects, the...
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...
Outside the Prætorium. Pilate yields to the clamour. 12. Thou art not Cæsar's (i.e. Tiberius's) FRIEND] The Jews now appeal to Pilate's selfish fears. They threaten to accuse him of disloyalty to the...
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...
AND IT WAS THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER. — Comp. Note on Matthew 26:17, and _Excursus F: The Day of the Crucifixion of our Lord._ AND ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR. — Comp. Notes on Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:2...
ἦν δὲ παρασκευὴ τοῦ πάσχα, “now it was the preparation of the Passover”. παρασκευή was the usual appellation of Friday, the day of preparation for the weekly Sabbath. Here the addition τοῦ πάσχα shows...
_Fresh assault upon Pilate and his final surrender_....
to John 19:16. _Jesus before Pilate_....
THE REJECTION OF THE KING John 19:10-17 Pilate's pride was touched by that silence. In His reply our Lord refers to the relative responsibility of those who shared in His condemnation. It was as if H...
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...
The Parasceve of the Pasch; that is, the day before the paschal sabbath. The eve of every sabbath was called the Parasceve, or day of preparation. But this was the eve of a high sabbath, viz. that whi...
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...
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 t...
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...
14._About the sixth hour. _The Evangelists appear to differ, and even to contradict each other, in the computation of time. The other three Evangelists say that _the darkness _came on _about the sixth...
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...
AND IT WAS THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER,.... So the Jews x say, that Jesus suffered on the eve of the passover; and the author of the blasphemous account of his life says y, it was the eve both of...
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! Ver. 14. _Behold your King_] _q.d._ A likely matter that this poor man should affec...
John 19:14. "And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour." Mark says (Mark 15:25) it was the third hour, and they crucified him, which seems by the context, to be manifestly t...
_When Pilate heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth_ Brought him out of the palace a second time; _and sat down in the judgment-seat_ On the tribunal which was then erected without the palace; _in...
THE PREPARATION; the preparation for the next day, which was the Sabbath, and the great day of the Jewish Passover. Mark 15:42. ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR; not far from noon. Mark says the third hour, or ni...
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...
THE PREPARATION to any feast signifies the day before it, because on that day they prepared whatsoever according to the law was necessary for the solemnization. Some much doubt whether in this place T...
Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments And that the Saviour appeared in the world, bearing the imperishable ark, His own body, at a time which was the fifth and half, John declares: "Now it was the sixth ho...
John 19:14 Now G1161 was G2258 (G5713) Day G3904 Passover G3957 and G1161 about G5616 sixth G1623 hour...
‘And he says to the Judaisers, “Look, see your king.” They therefore cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him.” Pilate says to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The Chief Priests answere...
‘Now it was the Friday (or preparation) of the Passover, it was about the sixth hour.' The word for ‘preparation' (paraskeue) meant primarily ‘Friday', as it still does in modern Greek, and had done...
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 19:14. AND IT WAS PREPARATION-DAY OF THE PASSOVER; IT WAS ABOUT THE SIXTH HOUR. It is not to be denied that the difficulties connected with each of these two clauses are very great; and we have a...
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...
THE PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER (παρασκευη του πασχα). That is, Friday of passover week, the preparation day before the Sabbath of passover week (or feast). See also verses John 19:31; John 19:42; M...
SIXTH HOUR (_ See Scofield) - (Mark 15:25). _...
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...
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 19:14. _And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!_ They had accused him of being a King, or of pretending to be one. Pil...
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...
_It was the preparation of the passover._ --The name _Paraskeue? _was given to the day of the week, our Friday, the day before the Sabbath, and had absolutely nothing to do with any preparation for th...
_From thenceforth Pilate sought to release Him_ PILATE’S LAST ATTEMPT TO RESCUE CHRIST I. DESPAIRING STRUGGLES BY A FEEBLE SOUL (John 19:12). 1. The earnestness of this attempt. Already he had endc...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 19:14 THE DAY OF PREPARATION OF THE PASSOVER may refer to the day preceding the Sabbath of Passover week (compare Matthew 27:62;...
PILATE HANDS JESUS OVER TO BE CRUCIFIED MATTHEW 27:15-26; MARK 15:6-15; LUKE 23:13-25; JOHN 18:38-40...
_It was the preparation of the Passover._ That is of the Paschal Sabbath, the Sabbath which fell in the octave. On this day great preparations were made for the following Sabbath, on which no work cou...
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...
John 19:19; John 19:3; John 19:31; John 19:32; John 19:42;...
Sixth hour. See on 1 39....
It was the preparation of the passover — For this reason both the Jews and Pilate were desirous to bring the matter to a conclusion. Every Friday was called the preparation, (namely, for the Sabbath.)...
If Jesus was crucified on Friday, how could He have been in the grave three days and nights? PROBLEM: Christ rose on Sunday (Matthew 28:1), but He stated that He would be “three days and three nights...
Observe here, how careful the Holy Ghost is to record and set down the time when Pilate gave sentence against Christ. In general, it was on the day of the preparation for the passover; that is, the d...