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Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 27:26-31

DISCOURSE: 1409THE INDIGNITIES OFFERED TO OUR LORDMatthew 27:26-31. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:1-66

This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this group denied his Lord. And at this moment he is out somewhere weeping bitterly over his failure.Now when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took council against Jesus to put him to death: and when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 27:1-66

The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance before Annas his arraignment before the sanhedrim his deliverance to the Roman power when arraigned before Pilate his appearance before Herod his return to Pilate, condemnation, scourging, and crucifixion his resurrection his ascension and the promise of his second coming. Here we trace the tragic... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 27:29-31

Matthew 27:29-31And when they had platted a crown of thorns.Mocked of the soldiersThe shameful spectacle! What element of scorn is lacking? Roman soldiers mocking a supposed rival of Caesar are sure to go to the utmost lengths in their derision. The spectacle is as cruel as it is derisive. Thorns and rough blows accentuate mockeries and scoffs. Roman legionaries were the brutalized instruments of a race noted for its ignorance of all tenderness; they wrought cruelties with a singular zest,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 27:31

31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him . Ver. 31. Put his own raiment on him ] God’s hand was in this, that all men seeing him to suffer in his own habit, might acknowledge that it was very he, and not another that suffered in his stead. Mahomet in his Koran speaks very honourably of Christ, except only in two things: 1. He took up the Arian heresy, to deny his Deity. 2. He denied that he was... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 27:31

and led: Matthew 20:19, Matthew 21:39, Numbers 15:35, 1 Kings 21:10, 1 Kings 21:13, Isaiah 53:7, John 19:16, John 19:27, Acts 7:58, Hebrews 13:12 Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:27 - without Mark 15:20 - and led John 19:17 - he Hebrews 12:2 - endured read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:31

§ 140. LEADING FORTH AND CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS, Matthew 27:32-34 . 31. Led him away to crucify him From the judgment hall of Pilate at the fortress of Antonia, Jesus is led forth to crucifixion. That he was led to a spot without the city gates, we are assured by St. Paul. Hebrews 13:11-12. But in what direction, whether east or west, neither Scripture, nor any reliable tradition, nor any circumstantial evidence informs us. Tradition, indeed, of a later date has fixed upon a spot, where... read more

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