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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha: Probably a knoll of rock which today stands outside the city gate looking wonderfully like a skull, with two depressions in the rock which at distance appear like eyes. This was the common place of execution, the Tyburn, the Old...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Where they crucified him,.... Namely, at Golgotha, the same with Calvary; and so had what they were so desirous of: and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst: these other two men were thieves, as the other evangelists declare; among whom Christ was placed, being numbered and reckoned among transgressors: he was no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. As if to show that they thought him the worst of the three, and therefore gave him ¾shall I call it the place of chief dishonour?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was, Jesus Of Nazareth The King Of The Jews. What could have moved Pilate to write that title? Perhaps he did it just to let the Jews know that they had forced him to put the Christ to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Pilate wrote a title,.... Luke calls it a superscription, Mark, the superscription of his accusation, and Matthew, the accusation itself; it contained the substance of the charge against him, and was written upon a table or board, and nailed to the cross, as Nonnus suggests; to this is the allusion, Colossians 2:14. The form of it was drawn up...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. So that all who gathered around the cross might read it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This title then read many of the Jews,.... Who were in great numbers, at the place of execution, rejoicing at his crucifixion, and insulting him as he hung on the cross: for the place where Jesus was crucified, was nigh unto the city; Golgotha, the place of Christ's crucifixion, was not more than two furlongs, or a quarter of a mile from the city...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. So that everybody could read it, for some one or other of these languages would be known to everybody in the crowd; they were not dead languages then as they are now.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate,.... Who were not only informed of this inscription, but might read it themselves, for they were present at the crucifying of Christ, and mocked at him as he hung on the tree; these, when they read the title, were greatly offended at it, partly because it was doing too great an honour to Jesus to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am king of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. He could be stubborn about some things which shows that he had strength of mind if he had chosen to use it; yet he was beaten to and fro like a shuttlecock by these wicked...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. He could sometimes be firm; perhaps when there was least excuse for it but when there was need of firmness, this vacillating Governor was swayed by the will of cruel men.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Pilate answered, what I have written I have written,.... He seems to say this, as one angry and displeased with them; either because they would not consent to release Jesus, which he was desirous of, but pressed him so very hard to crucify him; or at their insolence, in directing him in what form to put the superscription, which he determines...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,.... The crucifixion of Christ was at the request and solicitation of the Jews, was ordered by the Roman governor, and performed by the Roman soldiers; the sinful men into whose hands Christ was to be delivered: took his garments; which they had stripped his body of, crucifying him naked; as what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments,¾ For they had stripped him. He must be naked, because sin makes us naked, and his garments must be a covering for us. They “took his garments,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled,¾ They knew nothing about that ancient prophecy, yet God ordained that they should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments. It was the custom with executioners to take the garments of the criminal. Joh_19:23. And made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat woven without seam, woven from the top throughout. The common robe of the country, for Christ assumed no garment or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
There the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, They had already stripped him, no element of shame was wanting in his substitution for us. He stooped as low as our sins could have thrust us, that he might bring us up from the very depths of degradation and shame.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat: now the coat was without seven woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might he fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They said therefore among themselves,.... When they saw what a curious piece of work it was, and that it was pity to divide it into parts: and besides, that it would have been rendered entirely useless thereby: they moved it to each other, saying, let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be, that the Scripture might be fulfilled:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. Doubtless, on the dice there fell the blood of Christ, yet they still gambled there. There is, perhaps, no sin which so effectually hardens the heart as that of gambling; it is a sin with which Christians should not have...