Verse Luke 23:54. _AND THE SABBATH DREW ON._] Or, _The Sabbath was lighting_ _up_, επεφωσκε, i.e. with the _candles_ which the _Jews_ light just before six in the evening, when the _Sabbath_ commence...
See the Matthew 27:57 notes; Mark 15:42 notes....
CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The son of man before Pilate and Herod. (Luke 23:1)_ 2. Pilate Yields to the People's Will; Barabbas Freed and the Son of man Condemned. (Luke 23:13) 3. The Crucifixion of the Son Of...
THE BURIAL OF JESUS (Mark 15:42 *, Matthew 27:57 *). Lk. tells us that Joseph had dissented from the action of his colleagues in the Sanhedrin. Pilate's assent to his request is assumed. LUKE 23:53....
TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND SILENCE BEFORE HEROD (Luke 23:1-12)...
Look you--there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Sanhedrin, a good and a just man. He had not consented to their counsel and their action. He came from Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, and he li...
THE PREPARATION. See App-156. THE SABBATH. The high sabbath. See App-156....
_the preparation_ This word _paraskeue_became the ordinary Greek word for Friday, because on Friday the Jews diligently prepared for the Sabbath, which began at sunset. The afternoon is called _prosab...
ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ͂Σ, אBL, Vulg[394] Copt. Sah[395] La[396] Ti[397] [394] Vulg. Vulgate. [395] Sah. Sahidic Version. [396] La. Lachmann. [397] Ti. Tischendorf. 54. ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ͂Σ. This word παρασκευὴ became the...
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHAEA. THE TAKING DOWN FROM THE CROSS. THE ENTOMBMENT...
Ver 50. And, behold, there was a man named Joseph a counselor; and he was a good man, and a just: 51. (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathea, a city of the J...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Interred (Luke 23:50-56) 50 Now there was a man named Joseph from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, 51who had not co...
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. For the exposition, see the notes at ; and at John 19:31....
26 Compare Mat_27:32; Mar_15:21; Joh_19:17. 26 Tradition has sought to surround the cross with a false glamour by making it cross-shaped, instead of a single upright stake. The word "cross" itself has...
TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND HEROD. THE CRUCIFIXION AND BURIAL 1-5. The trial before Pilate begins (Matthew 27:1; Matthew 27:11; Mark 15:1; John 18:2
THE BURIAL (Matthew 27:57; Mark 15:42; John 19:38). See on Mt, Mk and Jn....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 23 PILATE EXAMINES JESUS 23:1-7 V1 The whole group rose up and took Jesus to Pilate. V2 They began to accuse him. ‘We caught this man because he is c...
THAT DAY WAS THE PREPARATION. — See Note on Matthew 27:52. THE SABBATH DREW ON. — Literally, _the Sabbath was dawning._ It is a question whether the word is used here of the actual beginning of the Sa...
(50-56) BEHOLD, THERE WAS A MAN NAMED JOSEPH. — See Notes on Matthew 27:57; Mark 15:42. St. Luke agrees with St. Mark in calling him a “counsellor,” but the epithets, “good man and just,” are peculiar...
ἐπέφωσκε, was about to dawn, _illucescebat_, Vulgate. The evening is meant, and the word seems inappropriate. Lk. may have used it as if he had been speaking of a natural day (as in Matthew 28:1) by a...
_The burial_ (Matthew 27:57-61; Mark 15:42-47)....
FAITH FROM, UNEXPECTED QUARTERS Luke 23:47-56 God has His agents everywhere. They are not known to us, but are well known to Him, and one word from Him will bring them and their resources to His hel...
This is the story of the Cross, and, as in dealing with other Gospels, it is best read in reverent quietness and meditation. We see all the forces of evil as represented in the Jewish priests and in P...
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath (k) drew on. (k) Literally, "dawning", and now beginning, for the light of the former day drew toward the going down of the sun, and that was the day...
Parasceve. That is, the eve or day of preparation for the sabbath. (Challoner) --- And the sabbath drew near. Literally, shined. The sabbath began in the evening, at sunset. It may, perhaps, be said t...
THE INTERMENT Matthew 27:57-61; Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:31-42. “Then the Jews, in order that the
_The Burial of Jesus._ According to John, the Jewish authorities requested Pilate to have the bodies removed before the beginning of the next day, which was a Sabbath of extraordinary solemnity. For t...
"And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: (51) (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
The Gentiles, however, are not presented in this Gospel as being voluntarily guilty. We see, no doubt, an indifference which is flagrant injustice in a case like this, and an insolence which nothing c...
AND THAT DAY WAS THE PREPARATION,.... Both for the sabbath, and for the "Chagigah", or grand festival, which they kept on the fifteenth day of the month, in a very pompous manner; so that the day foll...
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. Ver. 54. See Matthew 27:61 ....
_There was a man named Joseph, a good man, and a just_ One who united in his character the two great principles of morality justice and benevolence. _The same had not consented to the counsel and deed...
Christ's burial. Matthew 27:57-61....
THAT DAY WAS THE PREPARATION; the preparation for the solemnities of the next day, which was the Sabbath....
The burial of Jesus:...
AND THAT DAY WAS THE PREPARATION, AND THE SABBATH DREW ON....
DELIVERED TO PONTIUS PILATE (vs.1-5) It was still early morning when the Lord Jesus was brought to the judgment hall of Pilate, the Roman governor (John 18:28), for the Jews were determined to quick...
50-56 Many, though they do not make any show in outward profession, yet, like Joseph of Arimathea, will be far more ready to do real service, when there is occasion, than others who make a greater no...
OLBGrk; Greek, subbaton epefwske, the sabbath shined. What preparation was here intended, whether to the weekly sabbath of the Jews, (that it was most certainly), or to the passover also, which some w...
Luke 23:54 G2532 day G2250 was G2258 (G5713) Preparation G3904 and G2532 Sabbath G4521 near G2020 ...
A DAY OF WAITING (23:54-56). The approaching Sabbath, commencing at sunset on the day of the crucifixion, necessarily prevented any further activity, so that the women followers of Jesus, who had watc...
‘And it was the day of the Preparation, and the sabbath drew on (or ‘shone forth').' ‘The day of the Preparation.' This would normally be seen as indicating the Friday of Passover week (or more strict...
ON the leading events of this section, see especially Matthew 27:57-66....
Luke 23:54. AND IT WAS THE DAY OF THE PREPARATION, _i.e.,_ the day before the Sabbath (Mark 15:42) AND THE SABBATH DREW ON. The word used of the natural day, is applied here to the legal day, which...
THE DAY OF THE PREPARATION (ημερα παρασκευης). The technical Jewish phrase for the day before the sabbath for which see discussion on Matthew 27:62.DREW ON (επεφωσκεν). Imperfect active, began to...
Luke 23:1 , _And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him saying, We found this_ Put in what word you like villains scoundrel our translators could not...
CONTENTS: Jesus before Pilate and Herod. Barabbas released and Jesus condemned. The cricifixion and entombment. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pilate, Caesar, Herod, Barabbas, Simon, two thieves, Joseph. CONCLUS...
Luke 23:12. _The same day Pilate and Herod were made friends._ This occurrence is quoted in Acts 4:27, as an accomplishment of the prophecy in the second psalm. Luke 23:22. He said to them the third t...
THERE WAS A MAN NAMED JOSEPH. On the Burial of Jesus, see notes on Matthew 27:57-61. ALTHOUGH A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL. Both Joseph and Nicodemus were members of the Sanhedrin (the ruling Jewish Counci...
_A man named Joseph_ JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA 1. We have here an illustration of the slow process by which some are brought to the full acknowledgment of the truth. 2. An illustration of how the very e...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 23:54 The DAY OF PREPARATION was the day before the SABBATH, Friday (see notes on John 19:14; 19:31;...
Jesus is laid in the tomb Matthew 27:57-61; Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:38-42;...
CHAPTER 23 VER. 39. _And one of the malefactors which were hanged_ (this one, according to tradition, hung on the left hand of Christ) _railed_ _on Him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 23:50. A COUNSELLOR.—_I.e._, a member of the Sanhedrim. Luke 23:51. HAD NOT CONSENTED.—_I.e._, had absented himself, and had taken no part in the action of the council against J...
EXPOSITION LUKE 23:1 _The trial before Pilate_:_ First examination._ LUKE 23:1 AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF THEM AROSE, AND LED HIM UNTO PILATE. The Sanhedrin had now formally condemned Jesus to dea...
And the whole multitude of them arose, and they led him unto Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and sayi...
John 19:14; John 19:31; John 19:42; Matthew 27:62...