Vincent's Word Studies in the NT
John 19:7
We have a law. We, emphatic. Whatever your decision may be, we have a law, etc.
By our law. The best texts omit our : Read by that law, as Rev.
We have a law. We, emphatic. Whatever your decision may be, we have a law, etc.
By our law. The best texts omit our : Read by that law, as Rev.
Verse John 19:7. _WE HAVE A LAW_] In Leviticus 24:14-3, we find that blasphemers of God were to be put to death; and the chief priests having charged Jesus with blasphemy, they therefore voted that h...
WE HAVE A LAW - The law respecting blasphemy, Leviticus 24:16; Deuteronomy 13:1. They had arraigned Jesus on that charge before the Sanhedrin, and condemned him for it, Matthew 26:63.
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...
WE HAVE. LAW, AND BY OUR LAW HE OUGHT TO DIE, ETC. _We_ is emphatic. Pilate has decided that Christ is guilty of no crime against Roman law. Then they assert that he has merited death by the violation...
JESUS AND PILATE (John 18:28-40 ; John 19:1-16)...
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...
BY. according to. Greek. _kata._ App-104. OUR. the. OUGHT. Greek _opheilo._ Elsewhere in John only in John 13:14. MADE HIMSELF, &c. This was the charge on which the Sanhedrin condemned Him. See Matt...
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_; Pilate's appeal, -Behold the _man_;" the Jews" rejoinder -He made Himself _Son of God_....
_We have a law_ The Jews answer Pilate's taunt by a plea hitherto kept in the background. He may think lightly of the seditious conduct of Jesus, but as a Procurator he is bound by Roman precedent to...
7. After ΤῸΝ ΝΌΜΟΝ omit ἡμῶν (obvious amplification) with אBLΔ against A. 7. ΝΌΜΟΝ. They refer to Leviticus 24:16. The Jews answer Pilate’s taunt by a plea hitherto kept in the background. He may thin...
4–7. _Outside the Praetorium;_ Pilate’s appeal, ‘Behold _the Man;_’ the Jews’ rejoinder, ‘He made Himself _Son of God_.’...
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 6. WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS THEREFORE AND OFFICERS SAW HIM, THEY CRIED OUT, SAYING, CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM. PILATE SAYS TO THEM, TAKE YOU HIM, AND CRUCIFY HIM: FOR I FIND NO FAULT IN HIM. 7. THE J...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать, ΟΦΕΊΛΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΟΦΕΊΛΩ (G3784) быть необходимым. ΆΠΟΘΑΝΕΊΝ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать. _Inf._ в р...
WHEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS THEREFORE AND OFFICERS SAW HIM,— The priests, whose rage and malice had extinguished not only the sentiments ofjustice, and all the feelings of pity, but that love which country...
PRONOUNCED INNOCENT _Text: John 19:1-11_ 1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple ga...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 19:1-11 Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— Nowhere in Scripture, perhaps, is there a more striking and vivid demonstration of the so...
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM, WE HAVE A LAW, AND BY OUR LAW HE OUGHT TO DIE, BECAUSE HE MADE H...
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. 'Behold the man.' 'Crucify Him.' 5. Behold the man!] Lat. _Ecce homo._ The words are gently and sympathetically spoken, and are intended to move compassion: 'This meek and suffe...
WE HAVE A LAW] This confirms the evidence of the synoptists that Jesus was condemned by the Sanhedrin, not simply for claiming to be the Messiah, but for claiming to be divine, and so blaspheming God...
Inside the Prætorium. Jesus refuses to satisfy Pilate's curiosity as to His origin. 8. The more afraid] viz. of allowing Jesus to be unjustly executed. In spite of superficial scepticism (John 19:38),...
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...
WE HAVE A LAW, AND BY OUR LAW HE OUGHT TO DIE. — The better reading is,.... _and by the law He ought to die._ (Comp. Leviticus 24:16.) They feel the bitter sarcasm of Pilate’s taunt, and appeal to the...
John 19:7-12 _a_. _Second private examination by Pilate_....
The Jews are as determined that Pilate shall condemn Jesus as he is resolved not to condemn Him, and to his declaration of the prisoner's innocence they reply, Ἡμεῖς νόμον ἔχομεν … ἐποίησεν. He may ha...
to John 19:16. _Jesus before Pilate_....
JESUS ENDURES CONTEMPT John 19:1-9 Pilate was convinced of our Lord's innocence, and he adopted several expedients to save His life; he did everything, indeed, except to act with absolute justice and...
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...
“ _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...
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...
7._We have a law. _They mean that, in proceeding against Christ, they do what is right, and are not actuated by hatred or sinful passion; for they perceived that Pilate had indirectly reproved them. N...
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...
THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM,.... Finding they could make nothing of the charge of sedition against him, and that Pilate could not be prevailed upon to condemn him to death upon that score, they try another...
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. Ver. 7. _The Jews answered him, &c._] When they saw that the treason they laid to his cha...
_Pilate went forth again_ Although he had given sentence that it should be as the Jews desired, and had delivered Jesus to the soldiers, to be scourged and crucified, he thought, if he were shown to t...
WE HAVE A LAW; LEVITICUS 24:16. Pilate having pronounced him not guilty of sedition, of which they had accused him, they went back to the charge of blasphemy, on which he had been condemned by the cou...
THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM, WE HAVE A LAW, AND BY OUR LAW HE OUGHT TO DIE, BECAUSE HE MADE HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD....
Pilate again examines Jesus:...
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 LAW they mean, is the law for putting false prophets to death, DEUTERONOMY 18:20. By THE SON OF GOD HERE, they mean the eternal Son of God, in all things equal with his Father; otherwise it was a...
John 19:7 Jews G2453 answered G611 (G5662) him G846 We G2249 have G2192 (G5719) law G3551 and...
‘When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out, saying, “Crucify him, crucify him.” Pilate says to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him.” T...
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 19:7. THE JEWS ANSWERED HIM. WE HAVE A LAW, AND BY THE LAW HE OUGHT TO DIE, BECAUSE HE MADE HIMSELF SON OF GOD. The ‘We' is emphatic. ‘Thou, Pilate, mayest pronounce Him innocent; and He may be i...
BECAUSE HE MADE HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD (οτ υιον θεου εαυτον εποιησεν). Here at last the Sanhedrin give the real ground for their hostility to Jesus, one of long standing for probably three years (Jo...
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 19:1. _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...
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...
_The Jews answered him, We have a law_ LITERALISM AND PARTY SPIRIT I. WHAT WAS THE MOTIVE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND PRIESTHOOD IN COMPASSING THE DEATH OF CHRIST? It was the one fixed idea of devotion...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 19:7 The Jews’ comment recalls Leviticus 24:16. See note on John 8:59....
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...
_He_ _ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God._ As being a blasphemer, sacrilegious, and opposed to God. S. Augustine says, "See here a greater charge. It seemed but a light thing that He...
_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
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 19:1. THEREFORE (see Luke 23:22).—He was under the erroneous impression that this treatment of Jesus might soften the enmity of the Jews toward the Prisoner. SCOU...
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...
Deuteronomy 18:20; John 10:30; John 10:36; John 5:18; John 8:58;...
By our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God — Which they understood in the highest sense, and therefore accounted blasphemy....
Observe here, 1. How ambitious the chief priests were that Christ should die under. colour of law: We HAVE. LAW, AND BY OUR LAW HE OUGHT TO DIE. The law which they allude to, is the law for putting fa...