Verse 14
the preparation : i.e. the day before the Passover was eaten "at even" on the 14th Nisan. All four Gospels state that our Lord was entombed on the Preparation Day (verses: John 19:31 , John 19:42 .Matthew 27:62 .Mark 15:42 .Luke 23:54; Luke 23:54 ). See App-165 .
the sixth hour : i.e. midnight. The hours in all the Gospels are according to Hebrew reckoning: i.e. from sunset to sunset. See App-156 . Some have thought that the events from John 13:1 could not be crowded into so brief a space, but the Jews were in deadly earnest to get all finished before the Passover, and in such a case events move quickly.
he saith , &c. In irony here, as in pity (John 19:5 ). Some have thought that, in John 19:13 , "sat" should be "set Him". Justin Martyr says, "They set Him on the judgment-seat and said, ' Judge us' " (First Apology, xxxv). But out of forty-eight occurrences of the verb kathiza, only one other (Ephesians 1:20 ) is, without question, used transitively.
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