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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And after that they had mocked him,.... Gone through the whole farce, and glutted themselves with derision of him, and with sport and diversion with him, they took the robe off from him; it belonging to one of their company, and put his own raiment on him; partly that he might be known to be the selfsame person that was condemned and committed to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. Perhaps they were afraid that he would die from sheer exhaustion and so, with a cruel mercy, they would keep him alive for the infliction of further tortures.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. Their action, in restoring to him his own seamless robe, was overruled by God,-whatever their motive may have been,-so that nobody might say that some other person had been substituted for the Saviour. He went forth...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. And methinks that he must have been a glad man to have such an honour thrust upon him, yet you need not envy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And as they came out,.... Of the city; for no execution was made, neither in the court of judicature, nor in the city, but at some distance; as it was at stoning, so at crucifixion (h): "when judgment was finished, they brought him out to be stoned; the place of stoning was without the sanhedrim, as it is said, Leviticus 24:14, "bring forth him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. Any one of us might well have wished to have been Simon, yet we need not envy him. There is a cross for every one who is a follower of the Crucified; may we have grace to carry it after him!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. I wonder if he was a black man. There was a Simon in the early Church; and it certainly was the lot of the Ethiopian to bear the cross for many and many an age. This Simon was a stranger, anyhow, and a foreigner; truly honoured was he to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. It was too heavy for him to carry alone, so they bade Simon help him; and, truly, I think that Simon was thereby highly honoured. If this was Simon, who is called Niger, then there may be some truth in the common belief that he was a black man;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. Perhaps they were afraid that Christ would die from exhaustion; so they compelled Simon to bear his cross. Any one of Christ’s followers might have wished to have been this man of Cyrene; but we need not envy him, for there is a cross for each of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when they were come to a place called Golgotha,.... The true pronunciation is "Golgoltha", and so it is read in Munster's Hebrew Gospel. It is a Syriac word, in which language letters are often left out: in the Syriac version of this place, the first "l" is left out, and the latter retained, and it is read "Gogoltha": and so, in the Persic,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. He wholly abstained from that which might have lessened his pain. He came to suffer, and he intended to go through with all that he had undertaken. He would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, From its shape. There appears to be to this day a hill still in the form of a human skull outside the gate of Jerusalem. When they came to that common place of execution, the Tyburn or Old Bailey of the city,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. It was not because of its bitterness that our Lord refused it, for he did not decline to endure anything that would add to his grief; but this was a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, — We do not know why it was so called. There have been many conjectures concerning the name, but they are only conjectures. It was probably just a little knoll, outside the gate of the city, — the common place of execution for malefactors, and the special...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. Golgotha was the common place of execution for malefactors, the Tyburn or Old Bailey of Jerusalem, outside the gate of the city. There was a special...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. This was a stupefying draught, which was usually given to prisoners about to die in order to mitigate their pain, and therefore Christ would not drink it,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They gave him vinegar to drink,.... It was a custom with the Jews (o) when "a man went out to be executed, to give him to drink a grain of frankincense in a cup of wine, that his understanding might be disturbed, as it is said, Proverbs 31:6. "Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that be of heavy hearts"; and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. A stupefying draught was given to the condemned that is the only mercy that there was about the whole thing. The Romans did give to the crucified a draught of myrrh to take away something of the agony of crucifixion; but our Lord came not to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: A stupefying draught was usually given to the criminals who were crucified, to mitigate their agony; but Christ did not wish for that to be done in his case. Mat_27:34. And when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. He came to earth that he might suffer, and he would retain all his faculties...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they crucified him,.... That is, the soldiers: they laid the cross upon the ground, and stretched Christ upon it; they extended his two arms as far as they could, to the transverse part of it, and nailed his hands unto it: his two feet they fixed by each other on a basis, in the body of the cross, through which they also drove nails; and then...