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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 properly belonged to them, it being usual then, as...
Matthew Henry
Though in the history hitherto this evangelist seems industriously to have declined the recording of such passages as had been related by the other evangelists, yet, when he comes to the sufferings and death of Christ, instead of passing them over, as one ashamed of his Master's chain and cross, and looking upon them as the blemishes of his story, he repeats what had been before related, with...
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,” —
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 act thus “that the Scripture might be fulfilled,” —
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 vesture that would make him seem great. He was too...
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.
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 lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. Quite...