John 19:42 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. ”

• John 19:42 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See the notes at Matthew 27:57-61 .

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• John 19:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Lance-thrust and the Burial. It has been said that these verses contain parts of two accounts of burial, by the Jews, and by Joseph. In reality the Jews only demand that the law of Deuteronomy...

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• John 19:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  There laid they Jesus . Here the body ( John 19:38 ) is called "Jesus". Compare John 20:2 . because of . on account of. Greek. dia. App-104. John 19:2 .

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• John 19:42 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1728 THE BURIAL OF JESUS John 19:38-42 . And after this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the...

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• John 19:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. Because of the Jews' preparation - From this it may be conjectured that they had designed t...

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• John 19:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. There laid they Jesus therefore, because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulc...

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• John 19:42 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Crucifixion. The Burial 1-3. Inside the Prætorium. Scourging and mockery by the soldiers ( Matthew 27:26 ; Mark 15:15 ). It might be supposed from Mt and Mk that the scourging was only the or...

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• John 19:42 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The Jews’ preparation day. — Comp. John 19:14 ; John 19:31 , and Excursus F: The Day of the Crucifixion of our Lord, p. 559.

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• John 19:42 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Love-impelled Services John 19:38-42 In that supreme hour Christ's secret disciples revealed their true heroism, and carried Him to the garden sepulcher. It had been written that the Messiah wo...

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• John 19:42 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here once more we have the story of the Cross, and once again it is a story to be read almost without note or comment. The picture of our Lord led forth and presented to the crowds by Pilate is one o...

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• John 19:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And after this, Joseph of Arimathea, 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 theref...

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• John 19:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  There laid they Jesus therefore ,.... Because it was a new sepulchre, and no man had been ever laid there before; and some other reasons are added: because of the Jews' preparation day ; either fo...

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• John 19:42 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. Ver. 4:2. Because of the Jews ] That they might not do servile work on the sabbath, tho...

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• John 19:42 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now in the place where he was crucified In the same tract of land; there was a garden But the cross did not stand in the garden; and in the garden a sepulchre Which happened very commodiously f...

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• John 19:42 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  CRIMINALLY ASSAULTED IN THE COURT! (vs.1-12) Pilate then tried another desperate move, having the Lord scourged. This was gross injustice, yet he hoped by this to placate the Jews' enmity, consid...

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• John 19:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Burial of Christ.       38 And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought...

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• John 19:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  There they immediately buried Christ, because the time strictly called the preparation (for the whole day was so called) was nigh at hand. See a fuller account of the history of our Saviour's passi...

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• John 19:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Burial of Jesus ( John 19:38-42 ). God's watch over events is brought out initially in that Jesus had been anointed for His death ( John 12:7 ). Now He was to have proper burial.

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• John 19:42 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 19:31 . The Jews therefore, etc.… for great was that Sabbath day. —There was a twofold sanctity about the coming day, for it was not only the day at the begin...

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• John 19:42 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 19:41-42 I. The burial of Christ lies between His humiliation and His exaltation. It is the pausing point of His history, who, for the suffering of death, was made a little lower than the ang...

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• John 19:42 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 19:38-40 . And after this Joseph of Arimathea, 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 leav...

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• John 19:42 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 19:1 . Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him, as stated in Matthew 27:26 . In cases where this preseded crucifixion, Cicero has recited the form of the sentence from the Roman law. I...

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• John 19:42 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And after this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews A threefold power I. THE POWER OF WORLDLINESS. Both of these men had opportunities of being con...

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• John 19:42 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 19:1-43 (d) [Within the Praetorium.] The unjust scourging, and the crown of thorns. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him . The force of the "t...

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• John 19:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The burial of Jesus:

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• John 19:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:4 ; Acts 13:29 ; Colossians 2:12 ; Isaiah 53:9 ; John 19:14 ; John 19:31 ; Matthew 12:40 ; Psalms 22:15

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• John 19:42 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Because of the preparation — That is, they chose the rather to lay him in that sepulchre which was nigh, because it was the day before the Sabbath, which also was drawing to an end, so that they ha...

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