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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, For he did receive it. It was a weak kind of wine, commonly drunk by the soldiery. This is not that mixed potion which he refused, wine mingled with myrrh, which was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,.... Of the Roman soldiers, who offered it to him, either by way of reproach, or to quench his thirst; and he drank of it, as is very likely: he said, it is finished; that is, the whole will of God; as that he should be incarnate, be exposed to shame and reproach, and suffer much, and die; the whole...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he sowed his head, and gave up the ghost. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,)besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. It is not that he died, and that then his head fell forward; but while he yet lived, having before maintained an erect, noble bearing even in the pangs of death, he now, to show his perfect resignation to his Father’s will bows his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. Incarnate love has fulfilled its self-imposed task. Jesus, as the substitute for sinners, was condemned to die, and he died that he might finish the work of our redemption. “It is Finished.’ Hear the dying Saviour cry.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He said, It is finished: What “it” was it that was finished? I will not attempt to expound it. It is the biggest “it” that ever was. Turn it over and you will see that it will grow, and grow, and grow, and grow, till it fills the whole earth: “It is finished.” Joh_19:30. And he lowered his head, and gave up the ghost. He did not give up the ghost,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation,.... That is, either of the passover, as in John 19:14 which was the Chagigah or grand festival in which they offered their peace offerings and slew their oxen, and feasted together in great mirth and jollity; or of the sabbath, the evening of it, or day before it, as in Mr 15:42 that the bodies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. The breaking of the legs was intended to hasten death, ¾a very cruel method, but a very effectual one....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. To prevent a ceremonial error, they are willing to commit brutal cruelty; indeed, they had already...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then came the soldiers,.... Pilate having granted the Jews what they desired; either the soldiers that crucified Christ, and the others with him, and watched their bodies, being ordered by Pilate, went from the place where they sat; or a fresh company, which were sent for this purpose, came from the city: and brake the legs of the first; they came...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came the soldier, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side,- To make sure that he should not survive,¾
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. With a huge iron bar smashing the great bones of their legs.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But when they came to Jesus,.... Whom they passed by before, and now returned to; this they did not out of tenderness to him, but that he might be the longer in his torture, and whom they reserved till last, that they might use him with the greater cruelty and barbarity: and saw that he was dead already; as they might, from the bowing down of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they broke not his legs: but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced him twice, and forthwith there came out blood and water. See how, even after death, his heart it tribute poured out for us. We have not only the love of Christ’s heart blessing us while he lives, but after he died...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But one of the soldiers,.... Whose name some pretend to say was Longinns, and so called from the spear with which he pierced Christ: with a spear pierced his side; his left side, where the heart lies; though the painters make this wound on the right, and the Arabic version of Erpenius, as cited by Dr. Lightfoot, adds the word "right" to make the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.” So his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he that saw it, bare record,.... Meaning himself, John the evangelist, the writer of this Gospel, who, in his great modesty, frequently conceals himself, under one circumlocution or another; he was an eyewitness of this fact, not only of the piercing of his side with a spear, but of the blood and water flowing out of it; which he saw with his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, a bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For these things were done,.... The not breaking his bones and piercing his side, and that not by chance, and without design; but, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, a bone of him shall not be broken; referring either to Psalms 34:20 he keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken; which if to be understood of the righteous in general,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And again another Scripture saith,.... Zechariah 12:10 which as the former is referred to on account of the not breaking of his bones, this is cited as fulfilled by the piercing of his side: they shall look on him whom they pierced; in the Hebrew text it is, "upon me whom they have pierced"; the reason of this difference is, because Christ, who is...