Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
John 19:12-16
12–16. Outside the Praetorium. The power from above controlled from below pronounces public sentence of death on the Innocent.
12–16. Outside the Praetorium. The power from above controlled from below pronounces public sentence of death on the Innocent.
Verse John 19:12. _PILATE SOUGHT TO RELEASE HIM_] Pilate made _five_ several attempts to release our Lord; as we may learn from Luke 23:4; Luke 23:15; Luke 23...
SOUGHT TO RELEASE HIM - He was more and more convinced of his innocence, and more unwilling to yield him to mere malice and envy in the face of justice. BUT THE JEWS CRIED OUT ... - This moved Pilate...
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...
FROM THENCEFORTH PILATE SOUGHT TO RELEASE HIM. He continued his efforts, which John passes over with the statement. That they were persistent is indicated by the threatening reply of the Jews: IF TH...
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)...
FROM THENCEFORTH. on (Greek. _ek._ App-104.) this. SOUGHT. was seeking. IF. App-118. CAESAR. Greek. _Kaisar._ This title was adopted by the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar. Frequently found in in...
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:...
_And from thenceforth_ Or (as in John 6:66), HEREUPON. Result rather than time seems to be meant; but the Greek (here and John 6:66 only in N.T.) may mean either. Omit -and." _sought_ Imperfect tense,...
_Outside the Praetorium_; the power from above controlled from below pronounces public sentence against the Innocent....
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...
VER 9. AND WENT AGAIN INTO THE JUDGMENT HALL, AND SAY TO JESUS, WHERE ARE YOU? BUT JESUS GAVE HIM NO ANSWER. 10. THEN SAYS PILATE TO HIM, SPEAK YOU NOT TO ME? KNOW YOU NOT THAT I HAVE POWER TO CRUCIFY...
ΈΖΉΤΕΙ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΖΗΤΈΩ (G2212) искать. Усилительный _impf._ указывает на ряд попыток, в ответ на которые народ кричал (Brown), ΆΠΟΛΎΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΑΠΟΛΎΩ, см" ст. 10. _Inf._ являе...
AND FROM THENCEFORTH— An inattentive reader may perhaps understand these words, as if this was Pilate's first attempt to release Jesus; nevertheless they cannot justly be thus interpreted, as St. John...
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 from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. A...
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...
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 FROM THENCEFORTH PILATE SOUGHT TO RELEASE HIM. — The words may be interpreted of time, as in the Authorised version, or of cause — “For this reason Pilate sought to release Him.” The latter is mor...
_Fresh assault upon Pilate and his final surrender_....
In consequence of this and from this point, ἐκ τούτου, as in John 6:66, “upon this,” with a causal as well as a temporal reference, ἐζήτει ὁ Πιλάτος ἀπολῦσαι αὐτόν, Pilate sought (ineffectually, imper...
John 19:7-12 _a_. _Second private examination by Pilate_....
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...
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...
VER. 12. “ _From this time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out_, _saying, If thou releasest this man, thou art not Caesar's friend; for whoever makes himself a king, opposes Caesar._...
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...
12._From that time Pilate sought to release him. _Though _Pilate _does not conduct himself conscientiously, and is actuated more by ambition than by a regard to justice, and, on that account, is wretc...
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 FROM THENCEFORTH PILATE SOUGHT TO RELEASE HIM,.... From the time that Christ spoke the above words; or, as the Syriac version renders it, מטול הדא, "because of this", or on account of the words he...
And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. Ver....
_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...
NOT CAESAR'S FRIEND; Tiberius Caesar, then emperor of Rome. Finding that Pilate would not condemn Jesus for blasphemy, they returned to the former charge, of rebellion against the Roman government, an...
Pilate again examines Jesus:...
BUT THE JEWS CRIED OUT, SAYING, IF THOU LET THIS MAN GO, THOU ART NOT CAESAR'S FRIEND; WHOSOEVER MAKETH HIMSELF A KING SPEAKETH AGAINST CAESAR....
The condemnation:...
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...
He SOUGHT all fair and plausible means TO RELEASE HIM, being convinced in his own conscience that he was an innocent man: but the Jews double their clamours, and (according to the usual acts of sycoph...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews slay Him, saying to Pilate, when he was desirous to dismiss Him, "His blood be upon us, and upon our children; "[122] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews and, "If thou...
John 19:12 From G1537 then G5127 Pilate G4091 sought G2212 (G5707) release G630 (G5658) Him G846 but...
‘On this Pilate sought to release him.' Up to this point Pilate had been consistent in his view. He had examined Jesus and constantly declared Him without blemish. He did not think that this man was a...
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...
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...
John 19:12. UPON THIS PILATE SOUGHT TO RELEASE HIM. The verb ‘sought' in the original implies that Pilate now made repeated attempts, not recorded, to effect with consent of the Jews the release of hi...
SOUGHT (εζητε). Imperfect active, "kept on seeking," "made renewed efforts to release him." He was afraid to act boldly against the will of the Jews.IF THOU RELEASE THIS MAN (εαν τουτον απολυσηις...
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!...
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...
_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...
_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 19:12 Pilate remains unconvinced of Jesus’ guilt. He sentences him to die only after intense pressure from the Jewish leaders (vv. John 19:13). not Caesar’s friend
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...
_And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release Him._ He had sought to do so before. But he now more especially did so, after he had heard that He was the Son of God; fearing to incur the vengeance of...
_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 17:6; Acts 17:7; Acts 24:24; John 18:33; Luke 23:2;...
From thenceforth [ε κ τ ο υ τ ο υ]. Incorrect. Rev., rightly, upon this. Sought [ε ζ η τ ε ι]. Imperfect tense. Made repeated attempts. Caesar's friend. A title conferred, since the time of Augustus,...
Still observe, how unwilling Pilate was to put Christ to death; conscience bids him spare, popularity bids him kill: how frequently and how fervently did he contend with the Jews, till they make it. s...