Joh 19:1
19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and {1} scourged [him].

 (1) The wisdom of the flesh chooses the least of two evils, but
     God curses that very wisdom.

Joh 19:4
19:4 {2} Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them,
     Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I
     find no fault in him.

 (2) Christ is again acquitted by the same mouth with which he
     was afterwards condemned.

Joh 19:6
19:6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they
     cried out, saying, {a} Crucify [him], crucify [him]. Pilate
     saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him]: for I find
     no fault in him.

     (a) They will have him crucified whom, by an old custom of
         theirs, they should have stoned and hanged up as
         convicted of blasphemy: but they desire to have him
         crucified after the manner of the Romans.

Joh 19:8
19:8 {3} When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the
     more afraid;

 (3) Pilate's conscience fights for Christ, but it immediately
     yields, because it is not upheld with the singular power of
     God.

Joh 19:13
19:13 {4} 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, {b}
      Gabbatha.

 (4) Pilate condemns himself first, with the same mouth with
     which he afterwards condemns Christ.
     (b) "Gabbatha" signifies a high place, as judgment seats
         are.

Joh 19:16
19:16 {5} Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be
      crucified. And they took Jesus, and led [him] away.

 (5) Christ fastens Satan, sin, and death to the cross.

Joh 19:19
19:19 {6} And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross.
      And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE
      JEWS.

 (6) Christ, sitting upon the throne of the cross, is publicly
     proclaimed everlasting King of all people by the hand of
     him who condemned him for usurping a kingdom.

Joh 19:23
19:23 {7} Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took
      his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a
      part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam,
      woven from the top throughout.

 (7) Christ signifies by the division of his garments amongst
     the bloody butchers (except for his coat which had no seam)
     that it will come to pass, that he will shortly divide his
     benefits, and enrich his very enemies throughout the world:
     but in such a way that the treasure of his Church will
     remain whole.

Joh 19:25
19:25 {8} Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and
      his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary
      Magdalene.

 (8) Christ is a perfect example of all righteousness, not only
     in the keeping of the first, but also of the second table
     of the ten commandments.

Joh 19:28
19:28 {9} After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
      accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled,
      saith, I thirst.

 (9) Christ when he has taken the vinegar, yields up the Spirit,
     indeed drinking up in our name that most bitter and severe
     cup of his Father's wrath.

Joh 19:29
19:29 Now there was set a {c} vessel full of vinegar: and they
      filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop,
      and put [it] to his mouth.

      (c) Galatinus witnesses out of the book called Sanhedrin
          that the Jews often gave those who were executed
          vinegar mixed with frankincense to drink, to make them
          somewhat delirious: so the Jews provided charitably
          for the poor men's conscience who were executed.

Joh 19:31
19:31 {10} 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.

 (10) The body of Christ which was dead for a season (because it
      so pleased him) is wounded, but not the least bone of it
      is broken: and such is the state of his resurrection body.

Joh 19:34
19:34 {11} But one of the soldiers with a spear {d} pierced his
      side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

 (11) Christ, being dead upon the cross, witnesses by a double
      sign that he alone is the true satisfaction, and the true
      washing for the believers.
      (d) This wound was a most manifest witness of the death of
          Christ: for the water that issued out by this wound
          shows us plainly that the weapon pierced the very skin
          that encompasses the heart, and this skin is the
          vessel that contains the water; and once that is
          wounded, the creature which is so pierced and stricken
          has no choice but to die.

Joh 19:38
19:38 {12} And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple
      of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought
      Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and
      Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took the
      body of Jesus.

 (12) Christ is openly buried, and in a famous place, Pilate
      permitting and allowing it, and buried by men who showed
      favour to Christ in doing this, men who had before that
      day never openly followed him: so that by his burial, no
      man can justly doubt either of his death, or resurrection.

Joh 19:41
19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a
      garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was {e}
      never man yet laid.

      (e) That no man might frivolously object to his
          resurrection, as though someone else that had been
          buried there had risen; Theophylact.



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