john-19:28-34,-luke-24:1-8

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 19:28-40

(ii) Last of all there was Barabbas whose episode John tells very briefly indeed. Of the custom of freeing a prisoner at Passover we know nothing more than the gospels tell us. The other gospels to some extent fill out John's brief picture and when we put all our information together we find that Barabbas was a notable prisoner, a brigand, who had taken part in a certain insurrection in the city and had committed murder ( Matthew 27:15-26 ; Mark 15:6-15 ; Luke 23:17-25 ; Acts 3:14 ). ... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 19:31-37

19:31-37 Since it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a very important day) the Jews asked Pilate to break their limbs, and to have the bodies removed. So the soldiers came, and they broke the limbs of the first criminal, and of the other who had been crucified with him. When they came to Jesus, and when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his limbs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:28

After this ,.... After he had committed his mother to the care of John, which was about the sixth hour, before the darkness came over the land: and three hours after this was the following circumstance, which was not without the previous knowledge of Christ: Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished ; or just upon being accomplished, were as good as finished; and as they were to be, would be in a very short time; even all things relating to his sufferings, and the circumstances... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:29

Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar ,.... In a place near at hand, as Nonnus observes; not on purpose, for the sake of them that were crucified, either to refresh their spirits, or stop a too great effusion of blood, that they might continue the longer in their misery; but for the use of the soldiers who crucified Christ, vinegar being part of the allowance of Roman soldiers F13 Julian. Imperator. Epist. 27. p. 161. Vid. Lydium de re militari, l. 6. c. 7. p. 245. , and what they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:30

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 work his Father gave him to do, which was to preach the Gospel, work miracles, and obtain eternal salvation for his people, all which were now... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:31

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 Mark 15:42 that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day ; which was now drawing near: according to the Jewish law, Deuteronomy 21:22 the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:32

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 unto, which whether it was he that was crucified on his right hand, and was the penitent believer in him, as some have thought, is not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:33

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 head, the ghastliness of his countenance, the falling of his jaws, and other signs: they brake not his legs ; there being no occasion for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:34

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 miracle the greater: this the soldier did, partly out of spite to Christ, and partly to know whether he was really dead; and which was so... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:28

I thirst - The scripture that referred to his drinking the vinegar is Psalm 69:21 . The fatigue which he had undergone, the grief he had felt, the heat of the day, and the loss of blood, were the natural causes of this thirst. This he would have borne without complaint; but he wished to give them the fullest proof of his being the Messiah, by distinctly marking how every thing relative to the Messiah, which had been written in the prophets, had its complete fulfillment in him. read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 19:28-40

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 19:31-37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:34

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:28

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