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Verse	Translation	Text
Joh 19:24	Strong Concordance	They said [2036] therefore [3767] among [4314] themselves [240], Let us [4977] not [3361] rend [4977] it [846], but [235] cast lots [2975] for [4012] it [846], whose [5101] it shall be [2071]: that [2443] the scripture [1124] might be fulfilled [4137], which [3588] saith [3004], They parted [1266] my [3450] raiment [2440] among them [1438], and [2532] for [1909] my [3450] vesture [2441] they did cast [906] lots [2819]. These things [5023] [3303] therefore [3767] the soldiers [4757] did [4160].
	King James	They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Let us not rend it, but cast lots . . . whose it shall be, that the scripture might be fulfilled which saith, They parted my raiment among them; and for my vesture they did cast lots-- (Psa 22:18). That a prediction so exceedingly specific--distinguishing one piece of dress from others, and announcing that while those should be parted amongst several, that should be given by lot to one person--that such a prediction should not only be fulfilled to the letter, but by a party of heathen military, without interference from either the friends of the enemies of the Crucified One, is surely worthy to be ranked among the wonders of this all-wonderful scene. Now come the mockeries, and from four different quarters:--(1) "And they that passed by reviled Him, wagging their heads" in ridicule (Psa 22:7; Psa 109:25; compare Jer 18:16; Lam 2:15). "Ah!"--"Ha," an exclamation here of derision. "Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save Thyself and come down from the cross" (Mat 27:39-40; Mar 15:29-30). "It is evident that our Lord's saying, or rather this perversion of it (for He claimed not to destroy, but to rebuild the temple destroyed by them) had greatly exasperated the feeling which the priests and Pharisees had contrived to excite against Him. It is referred to as the principal fact brought out in evidence against Him on the trial (compare Act 6:13-14), as an offense for which He deserved to suffer. And it is very remarkable that now while it was receiving its real fulfilment, it should be made more public and more impressive by the insulting proclamation of His enemies. Hence the importance attached to it after the resurrection, Joh 2:22" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. (2) "Likewise also the chief priests, mocking Him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others, Himself He cannot save" (Mat 27:41-42). There was a deep truth in this, as in other taunts; for both He could not do, having "come to give His life a ransom for many" (Mat 20:28; Mar 10:45). No doubt this added an unknown sting to the reproach. "If He be the king of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him" (Mat 27:42). No, they would not; for those who resisted the evidence from the resurrection of Lazarus, and from His own resurrection, were beyond the reach of any amount of merely external evidence. "He trusted in God that He would deliver him; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him [or 'delight in Him,' compare Psa 18:19; Deu 21:14]; for He said, I am the Son of God" (Mat 27:41-43). We thank you, O ye chief priests, scribes, and elders, for this triple testimony, unconsciously borne by you, to our Christ: first to His habitual trust in God, as a feature in His character so marked and palpable that even ye found upon it your impotent taunt; next, to His identity with the Sufferer of the twenty-second Psalm, whose very words (Psa 22:8) ye unwittingly appropriate, thus serving yourselves heirs to the dark office and impotent malignity of Messiah's enemies; and again, to the true sense of that august title which He took to Himself, "THE SON OF GOD," which He rightly interpreted at the very first (see Joh 5:18) as a claim to that oneness of nature with Him, and dearness to Him, which a son has to his father. (3) "And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming to Him and offering Him vinegar, and saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save Thyself" (Luk 23:36-37). They insultingly offer to share with Him their own vinegar, or sour wine, the usual drink of Roman soldiers, it being about the time of their midday meal. In the taunt of the soldiers we have one of those undesigned coincidences which so strikingly verify these historical records. While the ecclesiastics deride Him for calling Himself, "the Christ, the King of Israel, the Chosen, the Son of God," the soldiers, to whom all such phraseology was mere Jewish jargon, make sport of Him as a pretender to royalty ("KING of the Jews"), an office and dignity which it belonged to them to comprehend. "The thieves also, which were crucified with Him, cast the same in His teeth" (Mat 27:44; Mar 15:32). Not both of them, however, as some commentators unnaturally think we must understand these words; as if some sudden change came over the penitent one, which turned him from an unfeeling railer into a trembling petitioner. The plural "thieves" need not denote more than the quarter or class whence came this last and cruelest taunt--that is, "Not only did scoffs proceed from the passers-by, the ecclesiastics, the soldiery, but even from His fellow-sufferers," a mode of speaking which no one would think necessarily meant both of them. Compare Mat 2:20, "They are dead which sought the child's life," meaning Herod; and Mar 9:1, "There be some standing here," where it is next to certain that only John, the youngest and last survivor of the apostles, is meant. And is it conceivable that this penitent thief should have first himself reviled the Saviour, and then, on his views of Christ suddenly changing, he should have turned upon his fellow sufferer and fellow reviler, and rebuked him not only with dignified sharpness, but in the language of astonishment that he should be capable of such conduct? Besides, there is a deep calmness in all that he utters, extremely unlike what we should expect from one who was the subject of a mental revolution so sudden and total. On the scene itself, see on Luk 23:29-43.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Let us not rend it, but cast lots . . . whose it shall be, that the scripture might be fulfilled which saith, They parted my raiment among them; and for my vesture they did cast lots-- (Psa 22:18). That a prediction so exceedingly specific--distinguishing one piece of dress from others, and announcing that while those should be parted amongst several, that should be given by lot to one person--that such a prediction should not only be fulfilled to the letter, but by a party of heathen military, without interference from either the friends of the enemies of the Crucified One, is surely worthy to be ranked among the wonders of this all-wonderful scene. Now come the mockeries, and from four different quarters:--(1) "And they that passed by reviled Him, wagging their heads" in ridicule (Psa 22:7; Psa 109:25; compare Jer 18:16; Lam 2:15). "Ah!"--"Ha," an exclamation here of derision. "Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save Thyself and come down from the cross" (Mat 27:39-40; Mar 15:29-30). "It is evident that our Lord's saying, or rather this perversion of it (for He claimed not to destroy, but to rebuild the temple destroyed by them) had greatly exasperated the feeling which the priests and Pharisees had contrived to excite against Him. It is referred to as the principal fact brought out in evidence against Him on the trial (compare Act 6:13-14), as an offense for which He deserved to suffer. And it is very remarkable that now while it was receiving its real fulfilment, it should be made more public and more impressive by the insulting proclamation of His enemies. Hence the importance attached to it after the resurrection, Joh 2:22" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. (2) "Likewise also the chief priests, mocking Him, with the scribes and elders, said, He saved others, Himself He cannot save" (Mat 27:41-42). There was a deep truth in this, as in other taunts; for both He could not do, having "come to give His life a ransom for many" (Mat 20:28; Mar 10:45). No doubt this added an unknown sting to the reproach. "If He be the king of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him" (Mat 27:42). No, they would not; for those who resisted the evidence from the resurrection of Lazarus, and from His own resurrection, were beyond the reach of any amount of merely external evidence. "He trusted in God that He would deliver him; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him [or 'delight in Him,' compare Psa 18:19; Deu 21:14]; for He said, I am the Son of God" (Mat 27:41-43). We thank you, O ye chief priests, scribes, and elders, for this triple testimony, unconsciously borne by you, to our Christ: first to His habitual trust in God, as a feature in His character so marked and palpable that even ye found upon it your impotent taunt; next, to His identity with the Sufferer of the twenty-second Psalm, whose very words (Psa 22:8) ye unwittingly appropriate, thus serving yourselves heirs to the dark office and impotent malignity of Messiah's enemies; and again, to the true sense of that august title which He took to Himself, "THE SON OF GOD," which He rightly interpreted at the very first (see Joh 5:18) as a claim to that oneness of nature with Him, and dearness to Him, which a son has to his father. (3) "And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming to Him and offering Him vinegar, and saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save Thyself" (Luk 23:36-37). They insultingly offer to share with Him their own vinegar, or sour wine, the usual drink of Roman soldiers, it being about the time of their midday meal. In the taunt of the soldiers we have one of those undesigned coincidences which so strikingly verify these historical records. While the ecclesiastics deride Him for calling Himself, "the Christ, the King of Israel, the Chosen, the Son of God," the soldiers, to whom all such phraseology was mere Jewish jargon, make sport of Him as a pretender to royalty ("KING of the Jews"), an office and dignity which it belonged to them to comprehend. "The thieves also, which were crucified with Him, cast the same in His teeth" (Mat 27:44; Mar 15:32). Not both of them, however, as some commentators unnaturally think we must understand these words; as if some sudden change came over the penitent one, which turned him from an unfeeling railer into a trembling petitioner. The plural "thieves" need not denote more than the quarter or class whence came this last and cruelest taunt--that is, "Not only did scoffs proceed from the passers-by, the ecclesiastics, the soldiery, but even from His fellow-sufferers," a mode of speaking which no one would think necessarily meant both of them. Compare Mat 2:20, "They are dead which sought the child's life," meaning Herod; and Mar 9:1, "There be some standing here," where it is next to certain that only John, the youngest and last survivor of the apostles, is meant. And is it conceivable that this penitent thief should have first himself reviled the Saviour, and then, on his views of Christ suddenly changing, he should have turned upon his fellow sufferer and fellow reviler, and rebuked him not only with dignified sharpness, but in the language of astonishment that he should be capable of such conduct? Besides, there is a deep calmness in all that he utters, extremely unlike what we should expect from one who was the subject of a mental revolution so sudden and total. On the scene itself, see on Luk 23:29-43.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Let us not rend it - It would then have been useless. The outer garment, being composed of several parts - fringes, borders, etc. Deu 12:12 - could be easily divided. That the scripture ... - Psa 22:18.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]
Vesture (ἱματισμόν) Clothing, collectively. Rev., garments, for ἱμάτια, is better than raiment, which is collective, while the word is used of the separate pieces of clothing.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
They parted my garments among them - No circumstance of David's life bore any resemblance to this, or to several other passages in the 22d Psalm. So that in this scripture, as in some others, the prophet seems to have been thrown into a preternatural ecstacy, wherein, personating the Messiah, he spoke barely what the Spirit dictated, without any regard to himself. Psa 22:18.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
That the scripture might be fulfilled - These words are found in the common printed text, in Mat 27:35; but they are omitted by ABDEFGHKLMSU, Mt. BHV, 150 others; the principal versions, Chrysostom, Titus Bost., Euthymius, Theophylact, Origen, Hilary, Augustin, Juven. See Griesbach's second edition. But in the text of John they are not omitted by one MS., version, or ancient commentator. The words are taken from Psa 22:18, where it appears they were spoken prophetically of this treatment which Jesus received, upwards of a thousand years before it took place! But it should be remarked that this form of speech, which frequently occurs, often means no more than that the thing so fell out that such a portion of Scripture may be exactly applied to it.

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²⁹ For [3754], behold [2400], the days [2250] are coming [2064], in [1722] the which [3739] they shall say [2046], Blessed [3107] are the barren [4723], and [2532] the wombs [2836] that [3739] never [3756] bare [1080], and [2532] the paps [3149] which [3739] never [3756] gave suck [2337].
³⁰ Then [5119] shall they begin [756] to say [3004] to the mountains [3735], Fall [4098] on [1909] us [2248]; and [2532] to the hills [1015], Cover [2572] us [2248].
³¹ For [3754] if [1487] they do [4160] these things [5023] in [1722] a green [5200] tree [3586], what [5101] shall be done [1096] in [1722] the dry [3584]?
³² And [1161] there were also [2532] two [1417] other [2087], malefactors [2557], led [71] with [4862] him [846] to be put to death [337].
³³ And [2532] when [3753] they were come [565] to [1909] the place [5117], which [3588] is called [2564] Calvary [2898], there [1563] they crucified [4717] him [846], and [2532] the malefactors [2557], one [3739] [3303] on [1537] the right hand [1188], and [1161] the other [3739] on [1537] the left [710].
³⁴ Then [1161] said [3004] Jesus [2424], Father [3962], forgive [863] them [846]; for [1063] they know [1492] not [3756] what [5101] they do [4160]. And [1161] they parted [1266] his [846] raiment [2440], and cast [906] lots [2819].
³⁵ And [2532] the people [2992] stood [2476] beholding [2334]. And [1161] the rulers [758] also [2532] with [4862] them [846] derided [1592] him, saying [3004], He saved [4982] others [243]; let him save [4982] himself [1438], if [1487] he [3778] be [2076] Christ [5547], the chosen [1588] of God [2316].
³⁶ And [1161] the soldiers [4757] also [2532] mocked [1702] him [846], coming [4334] to him, and [2532] offering [4374] him [846] vinegar [3690],
³⁷ And [2532] saying [3004], If [1487] thou [4771] be [1488] the king [935] of the Jews [2453], save [4982] thyself [4572].
³⁸ And [1161] a superscription [1923] also [2532] was [2258] written [1125] over [1909] him [846] in letters [1121] of Greek [1673], and [2532] Latin [4513], and [2532] Hebrew [1444], THIS [3778] IS [2076] THE KING [935] OF THE JEWS [2453].
³⁹ And [1161] one [1520] of the malefactors [2557] which were hanged [2910] railed [987] on him [846], saying [3004], If [1487] thou [4771] be [1488] Christ [5547], save [4982] thyself [4572] and [2532] us [2248].
⁴⁰ But [1161] the other [2087] answering [611] rebuked [2008] him [846], saying [3004], Dost [5399] not [3761] thou [4771] fear [5399] God [2316], seeing [3754] thou art [1488] in [1722] the same [846] condemnation [2917]?
⁴¹ And [2532] we [2249] indeed [3303] justly [1346]; for [1063] we receive [618] the due reward [514] of our [3739] deeds [4238]: but [1161] this man [3778] hath done [4238] nothing [3762] amiss [824].
⁴² And [2532] he said [3004] unto Jesus [2424], Lord [2962], remember [3415] me [3450] when [3752] thou comest [2064] into [1722] thy [4675] kingdom [932].
⁴³ And [2532] Jesus [2424] said [2036] unto him [846], Verily [281] I say [3004] unto thee [4671], To day [4594] shalt thou be [2071] with [3326] me [1700] in [1722] paradise [3857].

¹ And [2532] he said [3004] unto them [846], Verily [281] I say [3004] unto you [5213], That [3754] there be [1526] some [5100] of them that stand [2476] here [5602], which [3748] shall [1089] not [3364] taste [1089] of death [2288], till [2193] [302] they have seen [1492] the kingdom [932] of God [2316] come [2064] with [1722] power [1411].

²⁰ Saying [3004], Arise [1453], and take [3880] the young child [3813] and [2532] his [846] mother [3384], and [2532] go [4198] into [1519] the land [1093] of Israel [2474]: for [1063] they are dead [2348] which [3588] sought [2212] the young child's [3813] life [5590].

³² Let [2597] Christ [5547] the King [935] of Israel [2474] descend [2597] now [3568] from [575] the cross [4716], that [2443] we may see [1492] and [2532] believe [4100]. And [2532] they that were crucified [4957] with him [846] reviled [3679] him [846].

⁴⁴ [1161] The thieves [3027] also [2532], which [3588] were crucified [4957] with him [846], cast [3679] the same [846] in his [846] teeth [3679].

³⁶ And [1161] the soldiers [4757] also [2532] mocked [1702] him [846], coming [4334] to him, and [2532] offering [4374] him [846] vinegar [3690],
³⁷ And [2532] saying [3004], If [1487] thou [4771] be [1488] the king [935] of the Jews [2453], save [4982] thyself [4572].

¹⁸ Therefore [1223] [5124] [3767] the Jews [2453] sought [2212] the more [3123] to kill [615] him [846], because [3754] he [3089] not [3756] only [3440] had broken [3089] the sabbath [4521], but [235] said [3004] also [2532] that God [2316] was his [2398] Father [3962], making [4160] himself [1438] equal [2470] with God [2316].

⁸ He trusted [01556] on the LORD [03068] that he would deliver [06403] him: let him deliver [05337] him, seeing he delighted [02654] in him.

⁴¹ [1161] Likewise [3668] also [2532] the chief priests [749] mocking [1702] him, with [3326] the scribes [1122] and [2532] elders [4245], said [3004],
⁴² He saved [4982] others [243]; himself [1438] he cannot [3756] [1410] save [4982]. If [1487] he be [2076] the King [935] of Israel [2474], let him [2597] now [3568] come down [2597] from [575] the cross [4716], and [2532] we will believe [4100] him [846].
⁴³ He trusted [3982] in [1909] God [2316]; let him deliver [4506] him [846] now [3568], if [1487] he will have [2309] him [846]: for [1063] he said [2036], [3754] I am [1510] the Son [5207] of God [2316].

¹⁴ And it shall be, if thou have no delight [02654] in her, then thou shalt let her go [07971] whither she will [05315]; but thou shalt not sell [04376] her at all [04376] for money [03701], thou shalt not make merchandise [06014] of her, because [0834] thou hast humbled [06031] her.

¹⁹ He brought me forth [03318] also into a large place [04800]; he delivered [02502] me, because he delighted [02654] in me.

⁴² He saved [4982] others [243]; himself [1438] he cannot [3756] [1410] save [4982]. If [1487] he be [2076] the King [935] of Israel [2474], let him [2597] now [3568] come down [2597] from [575] the cross [4716], and [2532] we will believe [4100] him [846].

⁴⁵ For [1063] even [2532] the Son [5207] of man [444] came [2064] not [3756] to be ministered unto [1247], but [235] to minister [1247], and [2532] to give [1325] his [846] life [5590] a ransom [3083] for [473] many [4183].

²⁸ Even as [5618] the Son [5207] of man [444] came [2064] not [3756] to be ministered unto [1247], but [235] to minister [1247], and [2532] to give [1325] his [846] life [5590] a ransom [3083] for [473] many [4183].

²² When [3753] therefore [3767] he was risen [1453] from [1537] the dead [3498], his [846] disciples [3101] remembered [3415] that [3754] he had said [3004] this [5124] unto them [846]; and [2532] they believed [4100] the scripture [1124], and [2532] the word [3056] which [3739] Jesus [2424] had said [2036].

¹³ And [5037] set up [2476] false [5571] witnesses [3144], which said [3004], This [5127] man [444] ceaseth [3973] not [3756] to speak [2980] blasphemous [989] words [4487] against [2596] this [3778] holy [40] place [5117], and [2532] the law [3551]:
¹⁴ For [1063] we have heard [191] him [846] say [3004], that [3754] this [5126] Jesus [2424] of Nazareth [3480] shall destroy [2647] this [3778] place [5117], and [2532] shall change [236] the customs [1485] which [3739] Moses [3475] delivered [3860] us [2254].

²⁹ And [2532] they that passed by [3899] railed [987] on him [846], wagging [2795] their [846] heads [2776], and [2532] saying [3004], Ah [3758], thou that destroyest [2647] the temple [3485], and [2532] buildest [3618] it in [1722] three [5140] days [2250],
³⁰ Save [4982] thyself [4572], and [2532] come down [2597] from [575] the cross [4716].

³⁹ And [1161] they that passed by [3899] reviled [987] him [846], wagging [2795] their [846] heads [2776],
⁴⁰ And [2532] saying [3004], Thou that destroyest [2647] the temple [3485], and [2532] buildest [3618] it in [1722] three [5140] days [2250], save [4982] thyself [4572]. If [1487] thou be [1488] the Son [5207] of God [2316], come down [2597] from [575] the cross [4716].

¹⁵ All that pass [05674] by clap [05606] their hands [03709] at thee [01870]; they hiss [08319] and wag [05128] their head [07218] at the daughter [01323] of Jerusalem [03389], saying, Is this the city [05892] that men call [0559] The perfection [03632] of beauty [03308], The joy [04885] of the whole earth [0776]?

¹⁶ To make [07760] their land [0776] desolate [08047], and a perpetual [05769] hissing [08292] [08292]; every one that passeth [05674] thereby shall be astonished [08074], and wag [05110] his head [07218].

²⁵ I became also a reproach [02781] unto them: when they looked [07200] upon me they shaked [05128] their heads [07218].

⁷ All they that see [07200] me laugh me to scorn [03932]: they shoot out [06358] the lip [08193], they shake [05128] the head [07218], saying,

¹⁸ They part [02505] my garments [0899] among them, and cast [05307] lots [01486] upon my vesture [03830].

¹² And ye shall rejoice [08055] before [06440] the LORD [03068] your God [0430], ye, and your sons [01121], and your daughters [01323], and your menservants [05650], and your maidservants [0519], and the Levite [03881] that is within your gates [08179]; forasmuch [03588] as he hath no part [02506] nor inheritance [05159] with you.

¹⁸ They part [02505] my garments [0899] among them, and cast [05307] lots [01486] upon my vesture [03830].

³⁵ And [1161] they crucified [4717] him [846], and parted [1266] his [846] garments [2440], casting [906] lots [2819]: that [2443] it might be fulfilled [4137] which [3588] was spoken [4483] by [5259] the prophet [4396], They parted [1266] my [3450] garments [2440] among them [1438], and [2532] upon [1909] my [3450] vesture [2441] did they cast [906] lots [2819].