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Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Mark 15:1-47

Mark 15:1 . Straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. Συνεδριν , the whole sanhedrim, consisting of seventy, but which must never be less than twenty three, and the highpriest, to form a bench. St. John has the same idea of twenty four elders, clothed in white raiment. Revelation 5:4; Revelation 5:10. To this assembly it would be recited, that as good and faithful magistrates, when the state is in danger, they had sat... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 15:17-19

Mark 15:17-19And they clothed Him with purple and platted a crown of thorns.Mock dignityAmong the Babylonians and Persians it was customary on a certain feast to bring forth a malefactor from the prison, to place him on a throne, adorned with the royal insignia, to treat him with homage and honour, give him a splendid banquet, and then tear off his crown and royal apparel, scourge him, and put him to death by burning him alive. In Aricia, the priest, king for the year, was anciently sacrificed... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 15:18

Mark 15:18Crucify Him. The world’s treatment of ChristJohn Wesley, at a considerable party, had been maintaining with great earnestness the doctrine of Vox populi, vox Dei, against his sister, a lady whose talents were not unworthy the family to which she belonged. At last the preacher, to put an end to the controversy, put his argument in the shape of a dictum, and said, “I tell you, sister, the voice of the people is the voice of God.” “Yes,” she replied, mildly, “it cried, ‘Crucify Him,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 15:20

Mark 15:20And led Him out to crucify Him. Preparations for crucifixionThe case was shut and the last chance was gone, and Pilate uttered the terrible formula, “Go, soldier; get the cross ready!” The cross, perhaps, was found on a pile of grim lumber in some prison yard not far off. Perhaps it was a bole of some common tree, with the boughs lopped off and the bark left on. This log and its transverse beam had to be roughly knocked together at the place of crucifixion-not before. Some officer... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 15:21

Mark 15:21And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian.Bearing the crossI. In going through the history of the fact, our thoughts must glance along the links of the connection between the last appeal of Pilate, “Behold, the Man,” and the subject which claims our attention now.II. We pass from the historic fact to the challenge founded upon it. In view of what is now meant by cross bearing, we ask, “Who among you is willing to become a cross bearer for Christ?” The only cross in prospect now is a cross... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 15:22

Mark 15:22The place Golgotha.Golgotha.The place of executionCalvary, or Golgotha, is not now distinguishable as a hill, partly because of the accumulation of rubbish from the ruin of the city, in the hollows and valleys, and partly because it is doubtful whether it ever was, properly, a hill. It stood below Zion, and was looked down on from Herod’s new palace, but it was slightly above the elevation of the lower town. Its name, Golgotha, more correctly, Golgoltha, comes from the same root as... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 15:21

16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band. 17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head , 18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! 19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. 21... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 15:22

22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull. Ver. 22. St Mark very diligently describeth what happened at Calvary; what Christ did and said on the cross, what was done and said to him there, how he gave up the ghost, &c., that we might have these things as ready, and at our fingers’ ends, as he had who wrote the whole history of our Saviour’s passion upon the nails of his hands. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 15:23

23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not. Ver. 23. Wine mingled with myrrh ] This was not the same potion with that in Mark 15:36 ; Matthew 27:48 , but another. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Mark 15:16

the soldiers: Matthew 27:27 Praetorium: סביפשסיןם [Strong's G4232], in Latin, prזtorium was properly the tent or house of the prזtor a military, and sometimes a civil officer. John 18:28, John 19:9 Reciprocal: Psalms 22:16 - assembly Matthew 20:19 - shall deliver Luke 22:63 - mocked Luke 23:11 - set read more

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