Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 18:19-21
John 18:19-21. The high priest then asked Jesus— The court being duly constituted, and the prisoner placed at the bar, the trial began about break of day. See Luke 22:0. 66. The high priest asked our Lord, what his disciples were? for what end he had gathered them? whether it was to make himself a king? and what the doctrine was which he taught them? In these questions there was a great deal of art; for as the crime laid to our Lord's charge was, that he had set himself up for the Messiah, and... read more
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 18:18
John 18:18. A fire of coals; for it was cold— See the note on Jeremiah 36:22. Fires in winter are used but for a little while at Aleppo, which is considerably further to the north than Jerusalem; and some there make use of none at all. The fires they then use in their lodging-rooms are of charcoal, in pans; which sort of fire also is used by the Egyptians. They had no chimneys. But what seems most to have required the use of wood, and consequently chimneys, among the Jews, was the dressing the... read more