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Selected Verse: John 19:15 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 19:15 |
King James |
But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| crucify your King? . . . We have no king but CÃ&brvbr;sar--"Some of those who thus cried died miserably in rebellion against CÃ&brvbr;sar forty years afterwards. But it suited their present purpose" [ALFORD]. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
They (οἱ)
The best texts read ἐκεῖνοι, those (people). The pronoun of remote reference isolates and sharply distinguishes them from Jesus. See on Joh 13:27.
Away with him (ἆρον)
Literally, take away.
We have no king but Caesar
These words, uttered by the chief priests, are very significant. These chief representatives of the theocratic government of Israel thus formally and expressly renounce it, and declare their allegiance to a temporal and pagan power. This utterance is "the formal abdication of the Messianic hope." |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Away with him - Αρον: probably this means, kill him. In Isa 57:1, it is said, και ανδρες, δικαιοι αιρονται, and just men are taken away; that is, according to some, by a violent death. |
27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.