Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

John 19:37

ὄψονται. All present, especially the Jews. The whole world was represented there. Ἐκκεντᾶν, ‘to pierce deeply,’ occurs nowhere else in N.T. excepting Revelation 1:7, and forms a connexion worth noting between the Gospel and the Apocalypse (see on John 1:14; John 4:6; John 7:30; John 8:2; John 11:44; John 13:8; John 15:20; John 20:16); all the more so because S. John here agrees with the present Masoretic Hebrew text and in every word differs from the LXX. The LXX. softens down ἐξεκέντησαν (which seemed a strange expression to use of men’s treatment of Jehovah) into κατωρχήσαντο (‘insulted’). See on John 6:45; John 12:13; John 12:15, where there is further evidence of the Evangelist having independent knowledge of Hebrew. With the construction εἰς ὅν comp. John 6:29; John 17:9.

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