John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:5
Then came Jesus forth ,.... Out of the judgment hall, or place where he had been scourged, as soon as Pilate had said these words: wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe ; with his temples scratched and torn with the thorny crown, and the blood running down from thence, and his face and eyes swollen with the blows he had received from their closed fists, and all besmeared with his own blood, and the soldiers' spittle; his body appearing to be almost of the same colour with the... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 19:4
Pilate therefore went forth again ,.... When all this was done to Jesus, Pilate went again out of the judgment hall, or however from the place where Jesus had been scourged, and ill used in the manner he was: he went a little before him unto the Jews that stood without, and saith unto them, behold I bring him forth unto you ; that is, he had ordered him to be brought forth by the soldiers, and they were just bringing him in the sad miserable condition in which he was, that the Jews might... read more