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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. When Pilate therefore heard that crying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. The usual form of the Roman judgment-place, in the open air, with a stone pavement, and a raised throne.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. “To crucify your king.” In bitter sarcasm: “You call him king,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! They had accused him of being a King, or of pretending to be one. Pilate had scourged him, the soldiers had mocked him, and there he stood piteous spectacle of woe. What cruel sarcasm there was in the tones of the Governor when he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But they cried out, away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? “How could you call him King, and bring against him a charge of setting up a rival kingdom when you, who would be his subjects, are all crying out, ‘Crucify him’? ‘Shall I crucify your King?”’ How false they were their own actions...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him away. This exposition consisted of readings from Joh_1:19-33; Joh_19:1-16.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. So was he led as a sheep to the slaughter, as Isaiah had long before foretold that he would be.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...