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 # Mt 27:15
    \\At [that] feast.\\ The passover. How the custom of
 releasing a prisoner at the passover arose is unknown, but such
 customs are common under arbitrary rules.
 (PNT 153)
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 # Mt 27:16
    \\A notable prisoner.\\ A leader in an insurrection in which
 he had committed murder.
 # Mr 15:7 Lu 23:19
    \\Barabbas.\\ The word means "son of a father." Some have
 made him a type of the guilty human race which is released from
 punishment by the substitution of the innocent Christ.
 (PNT 153)
01002
 # Mt 27:17
    \\Therefore when they were assembled.\\ After the first
 examination, Pilate, finding that Jesus was from Galilee, sent
 him to Herod, tetrarch of Galilee, then in Jerusalem, to be
 tried by him as belonging to his jurisdiction. Herod, however,
 after trying to induce him to work a miracle and mocking him,
 sent him back.
 # Lu 23:6-11
 Now they had gathered after his return.
    \\Barabbas, or Jesus?\\ Pilate, desirous of releasing an
 innocent man, afraid to oppose the Sanhedrin, adopted this
 expedient in the hope that the increasing multitude of people
 would demand Christ rather than a blood-stained robber.
 (PNT 153)
01004
 # Mt 27:19
    \\When he was seated on the judgment seat.\\ Probably while
 the people were deciding for which one to ask. The judgment seat
 was a kind of lofty official throne, placed on the pavement.
 # Joh 19:13
    \\His wife sent to him.\\ On this sad day the voice of a
 Gentile woman was the only one that interceded for Christ. That
 she should speak of Jesus as a "righteous man," shows that she
 knew much of him and that he had already made a wide and deep
 impression.
    \\A dream.\\ It may have been entirely natural. She was
 probably already deeply interested in Jesus and knew that he was
 to be seized in the night. Her waking thoughts would be
 reflected in her sleep.
 (PNT 153)
01005
 # Mt 27:20
    \\Persuaded the multitude.\\ To call for the release of
 Barabbas, instead of Christ. It is likely that few of the
 Galilaeans, so favourable to him, yet knew of his arrest. "The
 multitudes" were such as the authorities would summon at this
 early hour.
 (PNT 153)
01006
 # Mt 27:21
    \\They said, Barabbas.\\ Pilate's artifice had failed. The
 Jewish nation had not only rejected its Messiah, but chosen a
 robber instead.
 (PNT 153)
01007
 # Mt 27:22
    \\Let him be crucified.\\ This is the decision of the Jewish
 people. He shall suffer the fate which was due the crime of
 Barabbas who had been released in his stead.
 (PNT 153)
01008
 # Mt 27:23
    \\What evil hath he done?\\ Pilate's struggle between his
 desire to be just and to please a body demanding a crime at his
 hands is pitiable. He repeats the question three times and
 offers to appease their rage by chastising the innocent.
 # Lu 23:22
 He had, however, lost his power when he began to parley with a
 mob. They, utterly unreasonable, only demand the move vehemently
 that Jesus be crucified.
 (PNT 153-154)
01009
 # Mt 27:24
    \\When Pilate saw that . . . a tumult was made.\\ It was a
 dangerous time for a tumult, with more than a million Jews in
 Jerusalem, and probably not a thousand Roman soldiers in the
 castle. If one occurred, it would be reported to Rome, and he
 could hardly make a plausible defense to the emperor. He
 therefore yielded, and gave his sanction to confessed wrong,
 rather than endanger himself.
    \\Washed [his] hands.\\ A symbolic act, meaning that the
 responsibility of the sin was upon the Jewish authorities and
 people instead of himself.
 (PNT 154)
01010
 # Mt 27:25
    \\His blood [be] on us.\\ That is, let us have the
 responsibility and suffer the punishment. A fearful legacy, and
 awfully inherited. The history of the Jews from that day on has
 been the darkest recorded in human annals.
 (PNT 154)
01011
 # Mt 27:26
    \\He had Jesus scourged.\\ Scourging usually preceded
 crucifixion. It was an awful punishment, inflicted by brutal
 soldiers, and continued until the victim was fainting under the
 torture.
 (PNT 154)
01012
 # Mt 27:27
    \\Then the soldiers . . . took Jesus into the common hall.\\
 After the scourging which was inflicted in the court.
 # Mr 15:16
 Josephus says that Pilate stayed, while in Jerusalem, in Herod's
 palace, on the northern brow of Zion, near the Jaffa gate.
    \\The whole band.\\ The cohort (from 400 to 600 men) on duty
 at the palace. They gathered to mock the doomed prisoner.
 (PNT 154)
01013
 # Mt 27:28
    \\They stripped him.\\ His clothing, stripped off at the
 scourging, had been replaced, but was now removed to wrap him in
 a mock royal mantle. Scarlet or purple were the royal colours.
 (PNT 154)
01014
 # Mt 27:29
    \\A crown of thorns.\\ Both in mockery and for torture.
    \\And a reed in his right hand.\\ For a sceptre. Having thus
 arrayed him, in royal robe, crown of thorns, and mock sceptre,
 they kneel before him and deride him.
 (PNT 154)
01015
 # Mt 27:30
    \\They spat upon him.\\ In order to show still greater
 contempt. Brutal as these heathen soldiers were, they were no
 more so than the Jewish Sanhedrin had been.
 (PNT 154)
01016
 # Mt 27:31
    \\After that they had mocked him.\\ Pilate presented the
 bleeding prisoner once more to the people, evidently to secure
 their pity, and made one more effort to release him, but in
 vain.
 # Joh 19:5
 Then Jesus was led away to the cross.
 (PNT 154)
01017
 # Mt 27:32
    \\As they came out.\\ Of the city. Jesus was crucified
 "without the gate."
 # Heb 13:12
    A company of soldiers, led by a centurion, had charge.
    \\A man of Cyrene.\\ Simon by name, the father of two
 well-known Christians.
 # Mr 15:21
 Cyrene was in North Africa, and was the house of many Jews.
    \\To bear his cross.\\ At first Jesus bore his own cross, but
 exhausted by scourging, sank under the weight.
 # Joh 19:17
 Luke seems to show that Simon only bore the "after" part of the
 cross, the lighter end, which had been dragging on the ground.
 # Lu 23:26
 (PNT 155)
01018
 # Mt 27:33
    \\Golgotha.\\ A Hebrew word, meaning a skull. From its Latin
 equivalent, \\calvaria\\, comes our English word Calvary, which
 occurs in the English NT only in Luke, where it should be
 translated "a skull."
 # Lu 23:33
 The name was due, either to a rounded rock like a skull, or to
 the fact that it was a place of execution and that skulls were
 lying there. The locality is not certainly known.
 (PNT 155)
01019
 # Mt 27:34
    \\They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall.\\ A
 stupefying drink, intended to lessen suffering.
    \\He would not drink.\\ The "tasting" implied a recognition
 of the kindly purpose of the act, but a recognition only. In the
 refusal to do more than taste, we trace the resolute purpose to
 drink the cup which his Father had given him to the last drop.
 (PNT 155)
01020
 # Mt 27:35
    \\They crucified him.\\ This was the most dreadful, terrible
 and shameful death known to antiquity. The Jews never crucified
 Jews, nor the Romans, Romans. That the Jews should demand of the
 Romans to inflict it on Jesus shows the intensity of their hate.
    \\And parted his garments.\\ From John we learn that there
 were four soldiers at the cross, and the garments were the
 perquisite of the soldiers.
 # Joh 19:23
 The outer garments were divided into four parts, one to each,
 but the \\coat\\, rather the "tunic," an inner garment, was
 seamless, woven in one piece, probably of wool. As it would have
 been spoiled by dividing it, the soldiers decided to cast lots
 for it, thus fulfilling another prophecy.
 # Ps 22:18
 (PNT 155)
01021
 # Mt 27:36
    \\And sitting down they watched him there.\\ It was their
 duty to remain by the cross until the execution was ended by
 death.
 (PNT 155)
01022
 # Mt 27:37
    \\THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.\\ It was the Roman
 custom to place on the cross over the criminal's head, a
 \\titulus\\, or placard, stating the crime for which he
 suffered. Luke says that the title was written in Greek, Latin,
 and Hebrew, the chief languages then spoken, and all spectators
 would be able to read it.
 # Lu 23:38
 (PNT 155)
01023
 # Mt 27:38
    \\Then were there two thieves crucified with him.\\ In all
 probability, partners in the crime of Barabbas. The mountain
 robbers, or \\banditti\\, were always ready to take part in such
 desperate risings against the Roman power.
 (PNT 155)
01024
 # Mt 27:39
    \\They that passed by reviled him.\\ The people going in and
 out of the city, on the thoroughfare near the place of
 crucifixion.
    \\Wagging their heads.\\ Derisively and insultingly. Compare
 # 2Ki 19:21 Job 16:4 Ps 109:25
 (PNT 155)
01025
 # Mt 27:40
    \\Thou that destroyest the temple.\\ It is very remarkable
 that now, while this was receiving its real fulfilment, it
 should be made more public and more impressive by the insulting
 proclamation of his enemies. Hence the importance attached to it
 after the resurrection.
 # Joh 2:22
 (PNT 156)
01027
 # Mt 27:42
    \\He saved others.\\ This may be ironical, but if Christ had
 saved himself he could not have saved others.
    \\If he is King of Israel.\\ The language is that of taunt,
 and refers to the inscription upon the cross.
 (PNT 156)
01028
 # Mt 27:43
    \\I am the Son of God.\\ It was because he said this that the
 Sanhedrin condemned him to death. In that he hung, seemingly
 helpless, on the cross, the chief priests, the very persons who
 voted his death, considered it demonstrated that he was not the
 Son of God.
 (PNT 156)
01029
 # Mt 27:44
    \\The thieves also, . . . cast the same in his teeth.\\ Luke
 only tells of the penitence of one.
 # Lu 23:39-43
 Doubtless, both at first reviled him, but one was converted in
 three hours that they hung side by side.
 (PNT 156)
01030
 # Mt 27:45
    \\From the sixth hour . . . to the ninth hour.\\ From twelve
 until three o'clock.
    \\Darkness over all the land.\\ Not the whole earth, but
 Judea. Early Christian writers speak of this, and appeal to
 heathen testimony in support of the fact. The period of outward
 darkness, no doubt, coincided with that of Christ's mental agony
 and sense of desertion. The darkness was not total, but probably
 a deep gloom, such as every one remembers to have experienced in
 his life-time.
 (PNT 156)
01031
 # Mt 27:46
    \\About the ninth hour.\\ Three o'clock, after the Lord had
 been six hours on the cross. The cry that follows is from
 # Ps 22:1
    \\Why hast thou forsaken me?\\ These words can only express
 the idea that he was treading the wine-press alone. As he hung
 on the cross, "made sin for us," he was left to struggle without
 a sense of his Father's presence.
 # 2Co 5:21
    Still, the cry, \\My God, my God!\\ shows that he still clung
 to the Father as his own.
 (PNT 156)
01032
 # Mt 27:47
    \\This [man] calleth for Elijah.\\ The resemblance between
 the word "Eli" and the name Elijah is very close in the
 original. There is an allusion to the belief that Elijah would
 come before the Messiah.
 (PNT 156)
01033
 # Mt 27:48
    \\One . . . took a sponge, and filled [it].\\ This was
 occasioned by our Lord's cry, "I thirst," the fifth word from
 the cross.
 # Joh 19:28
    \\Vinegar.\\ This was the sour wine used by the soldiers; not
 mixed with myrrh, as in the case of the stupefying draught Jesus
 had refused before crucifixion.
 (PNT 156)
01034
 # Mt 27:49
    \\Forbear, let us see,\\ etc. This was spoken in the way of
 interruption of him who was furnishing the draught of vinegar.
 According to Mark, he replied, and asked to be let alone.
 # Mr 15:36
 (PNT 157)
01035
 # Mt 27:50
    \\When he had cried again with a loud voice.\\ "It is
 finished," the sixth word from the cross.
 # Joh 19:30
 The three evangelists all dwell upon the loudness of the cry, as
 if it had been the triumphant note of the conqueror. The last
 words from the cross were those recorded in Luke, "Father, into
 thy hands," etc.
 # Lu 23:46
 The first "word" in the prayer for his enemies.
 # Lu 23:34
    \\Yielded up the spirit.\\ He voluntarily gave up his life
 for his sheep, and took it back again (Joh 10:17).
 (PNT 157)
01036
 # Mt 27:51
    \\The veil of the temple was torn.\\ The curtain before the
 Holy of Holies separating it from the Holy Place. It took place
 about the time of the evening sacrifice and showed by symbol
 that the real atonement, of which the yearly atonement was only
 a type, had been offered and that the true High Priest had
 entered into the true Holy of Holies.
    \\And the earth shook.\\ A common event at Jerusalem, but now
 significant of the sympathy of nature with the great tragedy.
 (PNT 157)
01037
 # Mt 27:52
    \\The graves were opened.\\ The convulsions of the earth
 would naturally roll the stones from the doors of the
 sepulchres.
    \\The saints . . . were raised.\\ Who is not stated, or
 whether their bodies returned to the grave again. Their rising
 was a testimony that the death of Christ is life to the saints.
 (PNT 157)
01039
 # Mt 27:54
    \\The centurion.\\ The Roman officer in charge of the
 execution.
    \\Truly this was the Son of God.\\ Rather, "a son of a god."
 He was a heathen soldier, believing in many gods, and the scenes
 of the cross had convinced him that Jesus was more than man.
 (PNT 157)
01040
 # Mt 27:55
    \\Many women.\\ The devoted women were still faithful, when
 the disciples had fled. Of the apostles we only know that John
 was near.
 (PNT 157)
01041
 # Mt 27:56
    \\Mary Magdalene.\\ Mentioned first here, also in Luke,
 before the resurrection. She had been healed by the Lord.
 # Lu 8:2
    \\Mary the mother of James and Joses.\\ She was the wife of
 Clopas or Alphaeus.
 # Joh 19:25
    \\The mother of Zebedee's children.\\ Salome. John mentions
 "his (Jesus') mother's sister," but does not name Salome, his
 own mother. Hence it is inferred that Salome was the sister of
 Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was also
 at the cross.
 # Joh 19:25
 (PNT 157)
01042
 # Mt 27:57
    \\There came a rich man.\\ On the burial, compare
 # Mr 15:42-47 Lu 23:50-56 Joh 19:38-42
    \\Of Arimathaea.\\ Its location is unknown. Joseph was a
 member of the Sanhedrin, who had not consented to the murder of
 Jesus.
 # Lu 23:50-51 Mr 15:43
    \\A disciple of Jesus.\\ But "secretly for fear of the Jews."
 # Joh 19:38
 (PNT 157-158)
01043
 # Mt 27:58
    \\Begged the body of Jesus.\\ Usually, the Romans suffered
 the crucified to remain unburied, but Joseph, to prevent this,
 or any abuse of the sacred body, begged it of Pilate. The latter
 consented readily, probably anxious for respect for the body of
 him whom he vainly sought to save from death.
 (PNT 158)
01044
 # Mt 27:59
    \\Joseph had taken the body.\\ Carefully down from the cross.
    \\Wrapped it in a clean linen cloth.\\ A winding sheet.
 Another Sanhedrist, Nicodemus, aided him, and they enclosed
 spices in the winding sheet.
 # Joh 19:39
 (PNT 158)
01045
 # Mt 27:60
    \\Laid it in his own new tomb.\\ A rock-hewn sepulchre, cut
 horizontally into the cliff.
    \\Rolled a great stone to the door.\\ The usual method of
 closing the rock-hewn tombs. Thus Christ "was buried, according
 to the Scriptures" in a rich man's tomb, was "with the rich in
 his death."
 # 1Co 15:4 Isa 53:9
 (PNT 158)
01046
 # Mt 27:61
    \\The other Mary.\\ The mother of James and Joses. These
 women saw where he was laid and returned there after the Sabbath
 with spices.
 (PNT 158)
01047
 # Mt 27:62
    \\The next day.\\ The Sabbath.
    \\That followed the day of preparation.\\ "That is, the day
 before the sabbath."
 # Mr 15:42
 (PNT 158)
01048
 # Mt 27:63
    \\Sir, we remember.\\ These dignitaries had not forgotten the
 predictions of Christ that he would rise on the third day, even
 if his own disciples had.
 (PNT 158)
01049
 # Mt 27:64
    \\Until the third day.\\ That is, until Sunday morning.
 Friday would be the first day.
 (PNT 158)