Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
John 19:14
It was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour.
John marks the exact time when this remarkable judgment was rendered.
It was about six o'clock in the morning, on Friday, the day of
preparation for the passover. Mark says that the crucifixion began at
the third hour (Mark 15:25), nine o'clock, as the Hebrews began to
count at six. John wrote many years later, after Jerusalem had fallen,
among people who began to count at midnight, as did all the Roman
world, and he therefore used their language and called six o'clock the
sixth hour, as we do, rather than the first hour as the Hebrews did.
Christ and his apostles had eaten the passover already. How then could
it be that was the preparation day? Amid conflicting views, I can only
give what seems to me the best solution: (1) It is certain that Christ
ate a meal the evening before in the Upper Room which was called a
passover. (2) It is certain from John 18:28 that the Jews had not
eaten the passover at that time. (3) It seems clear to me that Christ,
anxious to eat this passover (see Luke 22:15), ate it in advance of
the usual time, in order that he, the true Paschal Lamb, "Our Passover"
(1 Corinthians 5:7) might be offered on the same day that the passover was
eaten. The priests hurried the trial and execution of Jesus so that
they might proceed to the preparation of the passover that evening. As
the Lord's supper was anticipatory of the suffering on the cross, so
was the Lord's last passover. The question has difficulties, but this
view has fewer than any other.
John 19:1-16
The Crucifixion
SUMMARY OF JOH 19: Jesus Scourged. The Crown of Thorns. Pilate's
Acquittal. The New Charge of the Jews. No King but Caesar.
Crucified at Golgotha. The Garments Parted by Lot. The Women at the
Cross. The Mother of Jesus Committed to John. It Is Finished.
For notes on these verses, see Matthew 27:19-22. Compare
Mark 15:15-22 Lu 23:20-31. John gives a few additional features.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 26:17
Luke 23:1-25
Luke 23:54
John 19:1-16
John 19:14
John 19:31
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