John 19:1-3
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Other commentaries on this verse
- John Gill - Exposition - John 19:1
- John Gill - Exposition - John 19:2
- John Gill - Exposition - John 19:3
- Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - John 19
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - John 19:1
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - John 19:2
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - John 19:3-4
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - John 19:3
John 19:1-3. 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!
Just as they were gathered to say, "Ave Imperator" - "Hail emperor" -so imitating that word which they applied to Caesar. and applying it to Jesus in mockery. "King of the Jews," the utmost scorn was thrown into the last word, "of the Jews." There had been a general tradition that there should arise among the Jews a king who would subdue the nations, and the Romans jested at the very thought that they should be conquered by the leader of such a despised race as the Jews, and so they said, "King of the Jews."