John - 19:16



16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

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Explanation and meaning of John 19:16.

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Then therefore he delivered him unto them to be crucified.
Then therefore he delivered him up to them, that he might be crucified; and they took Jesus and led him away.
Then Pilate gave Him up to them to be crucified. Accordingly they took Jesus;
So then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took Jesus away;
Therefore, he then handed him over to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him away.
so Pilate gave Jesus up to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus;

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Then, therefore, he delivered him to them to be crucified. Pilate was, no doubt constrained by their importunity to deliver Christ; and yet this was not done in a tumultuous manner, but he was solemnly condemned in the ordinary form, because there were also two robbers who, after having been tried, were at the same time condemned to be crucified. But John employs this expression, in order to make it more fully evident that Christ, though he had not been convicted of any crime, was given up to the insatiable cruelty of the people.

Then delivered he him - This was not till after he had washed his hands, Matthew 27:24, to show, by that symbolical action, that he was innocent of the death of Christ. John omits this circumstance, together with the insults which Christ received from the soldiers. See Matthew 27:26, etc.; Mark 15:16, etc.

(5) Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led [him] away.
(5) Christ fastens Satan, sin, and death to the cross.

Then delivered he him therefore,.... Perceiving he could not by any means work upon them, and that nothing would satisfy them but his death; he therefore passed sentence on him, and gave him up to their will,
unto them to be crucified; as they requested, and which was done in a judicial way, and all by divine appointment, according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God:
and they took Jesus and led him away; directly from the judgment hall, out of the city to the place of execution, whither he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, without opening his mouth against God or man; but behaved with the utmost patience, meekness, and resignation.

Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified, &c.--(See Mark 15:15).

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