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James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 19:26-27

THE MOST PATHETIC PHRASE IN GOD’S WORD‘Woman, behold thy son!… Behold thy mother!’ John 19:26-Daniel : There was a brief lull in the tempest which surged round the Cross of Christ, and the women who had been looking on afar off, His mother and the women from Galilee, emboldened by the falling back of the crowd, drew near to the foot of the Cross. One disciple returned, the beloved John, and so through all the long agony, through all the awful darkness, as the lonely cry rang out, His loved... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 19:28

THE THIRST OF CHRIST‘I thirst.’ John 19:28 There breaks from the Cross one short, swift word, the only cry through the day’s long hours, which speaks of His own physical agony. Yet we cannot read these words as merely being signs of bodily suffering; there is a deeper spiritual meaning in the words as we read them now. I. He thirsted for men.—How He thirsted for men! Was that thirst satisfied? Did it have no result? Was He disappointed at all? Nay, one of the soldiers, we read, dipped a... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 19:30

THE FINISHED WORK‘When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished.’ John 19:30‘It is finished!’ What was finished here? It is the pent-up agony of centuries breaking into relief at that sighing word. Finished! I. Finished all that the Father and the Son had worked for since man fell.—So far back—we are told it by John—so far back as the first deplorable hour when the child of His love fell away, the hope of this redemption had begun to fill God’s heart, and the will of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:1-16

The Trial Continues (John 19:1-16 a). John has made clear in chapter 18 that, in facing His trial by His fellow Jews, Jesus had nothing to hide, although no details of their actual attempts to find prosecuting witnesses or of the charge of blasphemy has been given. In the examination before Annas Jesus has simply pointed to the proofs that He was unblemished. That is John’s emphasis, that the Lamb was open to examination before the High Priest and was found to be without blemish. Again before... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:16-18

‘They therefore took Jesus, and he went out bearing the cross for himself, to the place called the Place of the Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha., where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus in the middle.’ Jesus, His back in tatters, His clothes covered in blood, was now made to bear the means of His execution. The heavy timber which would form the crosspiece of His cross was laid across His back. (The upright would be found on site). We learn... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:16-37

The Lamb is Offered Up (John 19:16-37 ). Meanwhile the innocent victim was being dragged through the streets of the city, and then through an outer gate in order to be crucified ‘outside the gate’ (Hebrews 13:12). Rejected by those to whom He had come He was being treated as an excrescence, seen as not even fit to suffer within the city, something emphasised by the fact that He was being crucified. In the words of Deuteronomy 21:23, ‘a hanged man is accursed by God’, and that is how the Jews... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:19-22

‘And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title therefore read many of the Jews for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew (Aramaic?) and Latin and Greek. And the Chief Priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Do not write the King of the Jews, but that he said, ‘I am the king of the Jews’.” Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written”.’ It was normal... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:23-24

‘The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothes and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and they also took the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore one to another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, who shall have it”, that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, ‘they parted my clothes among them and on my raiment did they cast lots’ (Psalms 22:18). These things therefore the soldiers did.’ His... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:25

‘But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.’ As it is unlikely that Mary’s sister would also be called Mary we must probably see this as referring to four women, Mary and her sister; together with Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas. Mary’s sister may well have been called Salome (Mark 15:40), and may well have been the mother of James and John (Matthew 27:56). In fact this would explain the anonymity. The writer... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 19:26-27

‘When therefore Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he says to his mother, “Woman, behold your son”. Then he says to the disciple, “behold, your mother”. And from that hour the disciple took her into his own family circle.’ Jesus’ love and concern for His mother comes out here. Sometimes He had had to rebuke her when she had sought to interfere with His ministry, but His love for her never wavered. Now at this moment of His supreme agony some of His thoughts were... read more

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