Psalm 22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:16

For dogs have compassed me ,.... By whom are meant wicked men, as the following clause shows; and so the Chaldee paraphrase renders it, "the wicked who are like to many dogs"; and to these such are often compared in Scripture, Matthew 7:6 ; and it may be the Roman soldiers, who were Gentiles, may be chiefly intended, whom the Jews used to call dogs, Matthew 15:26 ; these assembled together in Pilate's hall and surrounded Christ, and made sport with him; to these were committed the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:17

I may tell all my bones ,.... For what with the stretching out of his body on the cross, when it was fastened to it as it lay on the ground, and with the jolt of the cross when, being reared up, it was fixed in the ground, and with the weight of the body hanging upon it, all his bones were disjointed and started out; so that, could he have seen them, he might have told them, as they might be told by the spectators who were around him; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:18

They part my garments among them ,.... Such as died the death of the cross were crucified naked F8 Vid Lipsium de Cruce, l. 2. c. 7. p. 81. , and their clothes were the perquisites of the executioners; there were four soldiers concerned in the crucifixion of Christ, and these parted his garments into four parts, and everyone took his part; and cast lots on my vesture ; which was a seamless coat, wove from the top to the bottom; and therefore, not willing to rend it, they cast lots... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:19

But be not thou far from me, O Lord ,.... See Gill on Psalm 22:11 ; O my strength ; Christ as God is the mighty God, the Almighty; as Mediator, he is the strength of his people; but, as man, God is his strength; he is the man of his right hand, whom he has made strong for himself, and whom he has promised his arm shall strengthen, Psalm 80:17 ; and therefore he addresses him in this manner here, saying, haste thee to help me ; his help was alone in God his strength; there were... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword ,.... Wicked men, whose tongues were as a sharp sword, reproaching and blaspheming him, and bearing false witness against him; and crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him", Luke 23:21 ; see Psalm 17:12 ; or any instrument of violence, as the iron bar with which the legs of the malefactors crucified with him were broken, which he escaped; and the spear which pierced his side, after he had commended his soul or spirit into the hands of his Father; or a violent... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:21

Save me from the lion's mouth ,.... Either the devil, who is as a roaring lion, whom Christ overcame both in the garden and on the cross, and destroyed him and his works; or all his wicked enemies, especially the most powerful of them, who were in greatest authority, as the chief priests and elders; so rulers and civil magistrates, who are cruel and unmerciful, are compared to lions, Proverbs 28:15 ; for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns ; some read this as a prayer... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:22

I will declare thy name unto my brethren ,.... Not those who were more nearly related to him according to the flesh; for though there were some who believed in him, and to whom he declared the name of God, as James and Joses, and Judas and Simon, Matthew 13:55 ; yet there were others that did not believe on him, John 7:3 ; nor those more remotely related to him, as all the Jews, who were his brethren and kinsmen also according to the flesh; to these indeed he came and preached, but they... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:23

Ye that fear the Lord, praise him ,.... By whom are meant, not the proselytes among the Gentiles, as distinct from the Jews, which is the sense of some Jewish interpreters F14 Midrash Tillim, Jarchi & Aben Ezra, in loc. ; but all the people of God, whether Jews or Gentiles, who have the grace of filial and godly fear put into their hearts, with which they worship God, and walk before him in all holy conversation; which is not a fear of wrath, or a distrust of divine goodness; but... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:24

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted ,.... That is, Christ, who was afflicted by men, both by their tongues, and by their hands; by devils, by the temptations of Satan for Christ suffered being tempted, though he was not overcome; and by his attacks upon him, both in the garden and on the cross; and by the Lord himself, Jehovah his Father, who laid on him the iniquity and chastisement of his people, bruised him, and put him to grief; awoke the sword of... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:25

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation ,.... Or, "my praise is from thee" F15 מאתך παρα σου , Sept. "a te", Pagninus, Montanus, Rivetus, Cocceius, Ainsworth. ; not that he should have praise of God, as he had, when he was received up into heaven, and set down at the right hand of God; but that God should be the object of his praise, as he was the cause of it; his salvation and deliverance of him, and resurrection from the dead, and exaltation of him, were the... read more

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