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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast). And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison). Pilate, therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. He seems to have gone backward and forward...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they cried out all at once,.... The chief priests, rulers, and people, not bearing to hear of a release of him, now they had got him in their hands; and enraged at the proposal, in a most clamorous way, cried out, as one man, immediately: Saying, away with this man; to the cross; to Calvary, the place of execution; away with him out of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) Do you not see how they refuted their own accusation? If Christ was really the leader of sedition, would they have asked that he should be put to death? Would they have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who, for a certain sedition made in the city,.... Of Jerusalem: he had made an insurrection in it, in opposition to the government, in order to have thrown off the yoke, and to have asserted and maintained their liberties, as a free people; or rather to have seized and plundered the properties of other people, since he is represented elsewhere as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Pilate therefore willing to release Jesus,.... Being more and more convinced of his innocence; and still seeing more clearly into the wickedness, malice, and envy of his accusers; and having received a message from his wife: spake again to them; putting it again to them, which he should release; asking them what he should do with Jesus; plainly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go. He thinks a great deal of his own inconsistent conclusion, and so many men do....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But they cried, saying, crucify him, crucify him. They were fierce and furious, more noisy and clamorous, the more they perceived Pilate was for saving him; and they were more desirous to have him crucified, and more impatient until it was done, as the repetition of the word shows.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go. And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. And...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto them the third time,.... After Christ had been sent back to him from Herod; for he had declared before he had sent him to him, that he found no fault in him, John 18:38. Why, what evil hath he done? what capital crime has he committed? is he guilty of murder? or sedition? or blasphemy? or robbery, and theft? or any other enormous...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they were instant with loud voices,.... They were urgent, and insisted upon his crucifixion, and pressed hard for it, and exerted their voices, and more loudly called: requiring him, that he might be crucified: desiring it in the most importunate manner; signifying, that it must be, that nothing else would content them: and the voices of them,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required. And he released unto them him that for sedition, and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will. And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. These men were bribed. The popular feeling was with our Lord to a very large extent, but, under the influence of threats and bribes, they found a mob to cry, “Crucify him.” You know the old saying, Vox populi vox...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Pilate gave sentence,.... Resolved, determined, and gave out: that it should be as they required; that they should have their request, what they asked for; namely, that Jesus should be crucified, and Barabbas released.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required. Again attempting to evade the responsibility by saying that they should be both accusers and judges.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he released unto them, him,.... Barabbas, who is not named, as being a detestable person, and unworthy to be named; and is therefore described by the infamous, though just character of him, as follows: that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, as in Lu 23:19 whom they had desired; to be granted to them, and released; see Acts 3:14 but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will. Sad scene. May our hearts be broken, and made tender, end sanctified by meditation upon it. Let us turn now to the later events.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And as they led him away,.... From Pilate's hall, and out of the city of Jerusalem, towards Calvary; which was done by the Jews and Roman soldiers, after they had stripped him of his own clothes, and put on him a scarlet coat, and had platted a crown of thorn, and put it on his head, and a reed in his hand, and bowed the knee, and mocked him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. Now these are the things which Mark has not put in.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there followed him a great company of people,.... Not only of the common people, but of the principal inhabitants of the city; for among these were the chief priests, Scribes, and elders: some went for one thing, and some another; some pitying, and others mocking at him, and all to see the melancholy sight, Lu 23:48 as is usual at executions:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. He had the siege of Jerusalem before his mind, and, therefore, in tender pity he bade them save their tears for other...