John 19:14 (WEB)
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And that the Saviour appeared in the world, bearing the imperishable ark, His own body, at a time which was the fifth and half, John declares: “Now it was the sixth hour,” he says, intimating by that, one-half of the day.” — editor's note: John xix. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“One Evangelist saith that the Lord was crucified at the sixth hour, and another at the third hour: unless we understand it, we are disquieted.” — editor's note: John xix. 14.
Read the whole comment“The above is John’s version of what was done by Pilate.” — editor's note: John xix. 13–16.
Read the whole comment“Then delivered he Him therefore unto them to be crucified.”” — editor's note: John xix. 13–16.
Read the whole comment“Wheresoever then you begin,—even if some other explanation can be given, so as not to contradict the Gospel of John, but to understand that He was suspended on the cross at the third hour,—still you cannot make the first day an entire day.” — editor's note: John xix. 14
Read the whole comment“There is also another solution of this question, that we should not here understand the sixth hour of the day, because John says not, And it was about the sixth hour of the day, or about the sixth hour, but says, “And it was the parasceve of the passover, about the sixth hour” (ver. 14).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The Jews thought they could alarm Pilate more by the mention of Cæsar, than by telling him of their law, as they had done above; We have a law, and by that law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.…
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But how can ye prove this? By His purple, His diadem, His chariot, His guards? Did He not walk about with His twelve disciples only, and every thing mean about Him, food, dress, and habitation?
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Pilate was before afraid not of violating their law by sparing Him, but of killing the Son of God, in killing Him. But he could not treat his master Cæsar with the same contempt with which he treated the law of a…
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He went out to examine into the matter: his sitting down on the judgment seat shews this.
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The tribunal is the seat of the judge, as the throne is the seat of the king, and the chair the seat of the doctor.
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Lithostraton, i. e. laid with stone; the word signifies pavement. It was an elevated place. And it was the preparation of the Passover.
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Parasceve, i. e. preparation. This was a name for the sixth day, the day before the Sabbath, on which they prepared what was necessary for the Sabbath; as we read, On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread.…
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Why then doth Mark say, And it was the third hour, and they crucified Him? (Mark 15:25) Because on the third hour our Lord was crucified by the tongues of the Jews, on the sixth by the hands of the soldiers. So that…
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Some suppose it to be a fault of the transcriber, who for the letter y, three, puts, six.
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Pilate, despairing of moving them, did not examine Him, as he intended, but delivered Him up. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
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As if to say, See the kind of Man whom ye suspect of aspiring to the throne, a humble person, who cannot have any such design.
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A speech that should have softened their rage; but they were afraid of letting Him go, lest He might draw away the multitude again. For the love of rule is a heavy crime, and sufficient to condemn a man. They cried…
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Pilate still tries to overcome their apprehensions on Cæsar’s account; Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? He tries to shame them into doing what he had not been able to soften them into by putting…
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They voluntarily brought themselves under punishment, and God gave them up to it. With one accord they denied the kingdom of God, and God suffered them to fall into their own condemnation; for they rejected the…
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But Pilate is at last overcome by fear: Then delivered he Him therefore unto them to be crucified. For it would be taking part openly against Cæsar, if when the Jews declared that they had no king but Cæsar, he…
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Alcuin of York on John 19:12–16 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 19:12–16 (3) (Catena Aurea).