Continuing from John 18, Pilate still trying to save Jesus from the mob. John 19 and verse 1 reads.
John 19:1] Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
Thinking that this will suffice the mob, it didn’t but, what happens next should anger all of us. The Lord will not be mocked.
John 19:2] And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
[3] And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
[4] 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.
[5] Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
Not a king and not a god., Pilate trying to persuade them.
John 19:6] When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
[7] The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Not against Roman law. No reason to be put to death by Pilate. Notice they said the truth accidentally. I thought it was because he claimed to be a king?
John 19:8] When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
[9] And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
This will be prophesy fulfilled. Let’s go to Isaiah 53:1-7 and it reads.
Isa.53:1] Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
[2] For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He was beautiful, He was made the full package, no more beauty could we desire of him.
Isa.53:3] He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
[4] Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
[5] But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Think about that, for our sins he was hung on the cross and we get the healing.
Isa.53:6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
[7] He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Pilate asked him to defend himself, but he opened not his mouth. For your sins and mine. Back to John and verse 10 reads.
John 19:10] Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
[11] Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Pilate was just given an important fact that we should all keep in mind for todays world. That all that are in power are given this power from God. Not that they are his children, but that only God gives this leadership to them to see if they will do what’s right or what’s evil.
John 19:12] And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
This is the problem, for if any man calls himself king, then he should be put to death. But Jesus never called himself king, and Pilate knew this so when Jesus didn’t answer Pilate, he had no choice.
John 19:13] 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, Gabbatha.
[14] And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
Now we are at almost noon of the 14th. day, the day that they kill the sacrifice. They had the trial all night, though that was illegal for the Jews, it was common for the gentiles.
John 19:15] But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priest answered, We have no king but Caesar.
[16] Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
Because these Kenites would say to Ceasar that Jesus called himself king, Pilate feared for his own life. Again, Jesus never called himself king.
John 19:17] And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
[18] Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
Going back to Isaiah 53 and pick it up where we left off, verses 8-12 reads.
Isa.53:8] He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
[9] And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Between two malefactors was he on the cross. And in Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb (Mary’s uncle) was he buried.
Isa.53:10] Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
[11] He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
[12] Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Prophesied almost 600 years before it happened. The Pharisees should have known this. Back to John and verse 19 reads.
John 19:19] And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
[20] This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
Wrote it and put it up where everyone could see and read it in their own language.
John 19:21] Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
[22] Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
Pilate had to be mad because he knew that it was them that said it and not Jesus. So, why not write it the way they said it. Showing to Pilate that they lied to him.
John 19:23] 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.
A priest garment had no seams. Imagine how the workmanship this had and the value that it must have had.
John19:24] They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
Psalms 22:18, written almost 1,000 years before Jesus walked on the earth.
John 19:25] Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
[26] When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
[27] Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
This disciple that Jesus loved would be the writer of this gospel, John. Humbly he wrote this. John was the only one of the sheep that did not scatter. And by scatter, I mean because their lives were in danger. Remember when Jesus was asked “who are your disciples” and he did not tell them?
John 19:28] After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
The Living Water said I thirst!
[29] Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
All prophesy pertaining to the Christ comes to pass exactly as it was written. Let’s go to Psalms 69 and read 21-24.
Psa.69:21] They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
[22] Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
[23] Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
[24] Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Vinegar is a poor man’s wine. Back to John and verse 30 reads.
John 19:30] When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
“It is finished”, Jesus’s last words. Remember Jesus’s first words. After the sabbath when he was just twelve years old, and his parents lost him and went back and found him in the temple teaching. What were his first words recorded in the bible? Let’s go to Luke 2:42-49 and read.
Luke 2:42] And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
[43] And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
[44] But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
[45] And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
[46] And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
[47] And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
[48] And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
[49] And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?
His Fathers works, and Jesus just said on the cross “It is finished”. Back to John, and Jesus just gave up the Spirit, verse 31 reads.
John 19:31] 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.
It was the Passover. And no Passover lamb bones could be broken. Exodus 12:46 and it reads.
Exo.12:46] In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Back to John and verse 32 reads.
John 19:32] Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
[33] But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
[34] But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
[35] And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
[36] For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
[37] And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
We just read Exodus 12:46, but that he will be pierced is in Psalms 22. We will be reading Psalms 22 tomorrow.
John 19:38] 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.
Making Joseph of Arimathea Jesus’s kinsman redeemer.
John 19:39] And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Now Joseph and Nicodemus were both Pharisees, and of the Sanhedrin. Meaning they were very rich and leaders of the people. Thou they didn’t have enough authority over the high priest. But Joseph being Jesus’s uncle will give him his tomb for burial, completing the prophesy of Isaiah 53:9. Which we read above.
John 19:40] Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
[41] Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
[42] There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Always hard for me to read, but that he died for me and you, for our sins. This love cannot be matched. Tomorrow will read Psalms 22, written 1,000 years before He walked on the earth. Let’s go to his throne.
Father, we love you very much and can’t say it enough. Bless all that love you and we thank you for your word in Jesus’s precious name, Amen.
KJV along with The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible