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 John 19:4-6, with the design of inducing the
Jewish leaders to yield with respect to the demand for... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him;_ 2, _and the
soldiers, having plaited a crown of thorns, placed it upon his head
and arrayed him in a purple robe;and they said, Hail, king of the
Jews! And they struck him with rods._ ”
Pilate had ascended his tribunal to pronounce the liberatio... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Pilate went out again and says to them, Behold, I bring him out
to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him._ 5. _Jesus
therefore went out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe.
And he says to them, Behold the man!_ 6. _When therefore the chief
priests and the officers saw hi... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _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 entered
into the Praetorium again_, _and says to Jesus, Whence art thou? But
Jesus gave him no answe... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Pilate says to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not
that I have power to release thee and power to crucify thee?_ 11.
_Jesus answered_, _Thou wouldest have no power at all against me,
except it were given thee from above; therefore, he that delivered me
unto thee is guilty of a greater... [ Continue Reading ]
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._
”
᾿Εκ τούτου : _from_ and _by reason of_ this word uttered by
Jesus; comp. John 6:66. John seems to... [ Continue Reading ]
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 the
Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, Behold
your King!_ 15. _They cried o... [ Continue Reading ]
VV. 16B-18. “ _Now they took Jesus;and, bearing his cross_, _he went
out of the city [going] to the place called the place of the skull, in
Hebrew Golgotha_, 18, _where they crucified him, and with him two
others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst._ ”
These two verses sum up very briefly t... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRD SECTION: 19:16B-42. THE EXECUTION OF JESUS.
1. The crucifixion: John 19:16; John 19:16;
2. The inscription: John 19:19-22;
3. The parting of the garments: John 19:23-24;
4. The filial legacy: John 19:25-27;
5. The death: John 19:28-30;
6. The breaking of the legs and the spearthrust: Joh... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Pilate also caused an inscription to be made and to be put upon
the cross; there was written: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the
Jews._ 20. _Many of the Jews therefore read this inscription, because
the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was
written in Hebrew, in Greek, and... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
garments and made four parts, one for every soldier, and then the
tunic;now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout._
24. _They said therefore one to another:Let us not rend it, but let us
cast lots for it whose it... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Now there stood near the cross of Jesus his mother and his
mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene._ 26.
_Jesus, therefore, seeing his mother and beside her the disciple whom
he loved, says to his mother_, _Woman, behold thy son._ 27. _Then he
says to the disciple, Behold thy... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, that the
Scripture might be fulfilled_, _says, I thirst._ 29. _There was a
vessel there full of vinegar; and the soldiers, having filled a sponge
with vinegar and having put it on the end of a hyssop stalk_, _brought
it to his mouth._ 30. _Whe... [ Continue Reading ]
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR.
Vv. 31-42.
1. If the Sabbath referred to in John 19:31 was the 15th of Nisan, we
have a very simple and satisfactory explanation of the expression that
it was “a great day.” In that case it was a weekly Sabbath, as
being Saturday, and also the feast Sabbath.... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first, then
of the other who was crucified with him._ 33. _But, when they came to
Jesus, seeing that he was already dead_, _they did not break his
legs;_ 34, _but_ _one of the soldiers pierced his side with his spear,
and immediately there cam... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _And he who saw it has borne witness, and his testimony is true_,
_and he knows that he says true, that you also may believe._ 36. _For
these things came to pass that the Scripture might be fulfilled: No
one of his bones shall be broken._ 37. _And another word also says:
They shall look on him who... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _After this Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but
secretly for fear of the Jews, went and asked Pilate that they might
take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came
therefore, and took away the body of Jesus._ 39. _Nicodemus, who at
the first came to Jesus by nigh... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and
in the garden a new sepulchre wherein no one had ever yet been laid._
42. _It was there that they laid Jesus, because of the Preparation of
the Jews; for the sepulchre was near._ ”
According to Matthew, the sepulchre belonged to Jos... [ Continue Reading ]