John 19:6 (WEB)
When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
Fathers and councils · 24
Jerome
“Will you therefore dare to say that Peter and the rest of the Apostles who fled denied the Saviour in the same sense as Caiaphas and the Pharisees and the people who cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him”?” — editor's note: S. John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“Then shall they see him who pierced Him, who shouted, “Crucify Him, crucify Him.”” — editor's note: John xix. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
““My Deliverer from My angry enemies:” the Jews crying out, “Crucify Him, Crucify Him.”” — editor's note: John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“As a lion, whose ravening is, that I was taken and led; and whose roaring, “Crucify, Crucify.”” — editor's note: John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“When therefore did they smite, save when they clamoured, “Crucify, crucify”?” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 22; John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“Afterwards they cried out, “Crucify, Crucify.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 23; John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“Where is that savageness? where is that roar of the lion, of the people roaring and saying, “Crucify, Crucify”?” — editor's note: Luke xxiii. 21; John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“…lifted up themselves from the fires of their hatred unto the vapouring of pride, and against Heaven setting their mouth, and shouting, “Crucify, Crucify,” Him taken captive they derided, Him hanging they mocked: and being soon conquered by that very Person against whom they swelled victorious, they vanished away.” — editor's note: John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“He came into the depth of the sea, in which depth we were thrust down, in which depth we had suffered shipwreck: He came thither Himself, and the tempest made Him to sink down: for there He suffered waves, those very men; tempests, the voices of men saying, “Crucify, Crucify.”” — editor's note: John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“The synagogue of the powerful rose up against the Head, that is, our Lord Jesus Christ, crying and saying with one mouth, Crucify Him, crucify Him: of whom it is said, “The sons of men, their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.”” — editor's note: John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“Next, because they burst into cries, “Crucify Him, crucify Him;” he hath added, “They compassed me about also with words of hatred.”” — editor's note: John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“The above is John’s version of what was done by Pilate.” — editor's note: [Many harmonists, in view of the fact that Jesus had been scourged before the events narrated in John xix. 2–16, place these occurrences after the delivery of…
Read the whole comment“But the evangelist proceeds again: “When the chief priests therefore and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him!”” — editor's note: John xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“But if in addition to all these former deeds of yours, you also cried out, “Crucify, crucify [him];” then hear what it is against you that the prophet proclaims: “The sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.”” — editor's note: Chap. xix. 6.
Read the whole comment“…sixth, and remembers rather to give an express place to the third hour, at which they are understood to have cried out before Pilate, “Crucify, crucify him” (verse 6), that it not only may be seen that the former crucified Jesus, namely, the soldiers who hung Him on the tree at the sixth hour, but the Jews also, who…” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The envy of the Jews does not subside at Christ’s disgraces; yea, rather rises: When the chief priests therefore and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify Him. crucify Him.
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Pilate saw then that it was all in vain: Pilate saith unto them, Take ye Him, and crucify Him. This is the speech of a man abhorring (ἀφοσιούμενον) the deed, and urging others to do a deed which he abhors himself.…
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Lo, another greater outbreak of envy. The former was lighter, being only to punish Him for aspiring to a usurpation of the royal power. Yet did Jesus make neither claim falsely; both were true: He was both the…
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While they disputed with each other, He was silent, fulfilling the prophecy, He openeth not His mouth; He was taken from prison and from judgment. (Is. 53:7, 8)
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This agrees with Luke’s account, We found this fellow perverting the nation, (Luke 23:2) only with the addition of, because He made Himself the Son of God.
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Then Pilate begins to fear that what had been said might be true, and that he might appear to be administering justice improperly: When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid.
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on John
It was not the law that he was afraid of, as he was a stranger: but he was more afraid, lest he should slay the Son of God.
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They were not afraid to say this, that He made Himself the Son of God: but they kill Him for the very reasons for which they ought to have worshipped Him.
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Cross-references · 10
Parallel passages
Luke 23:4 and John 19:6 share the same wording (12 words).
Luke 23:21 and John 19:6 share the same wording (5 words).
Cited together with
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 114.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 114.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 114.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on John 19:6–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 114.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 114.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 114.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 19:6–8 (3) (Catena Aurea).
