24They 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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They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. …
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)Here are some remarkable circumstances of Christ’s dying more fully related than before, which those will take special notice of who covet to know Christ and him crucified. I. The title set up over his head. Observe, 1. The inscription itself which Pilate wrote, and ordered to be fixed to the top of the cross, declaring the cause for which he was crucified, John 19:19. Matthew called it, aitia — t…
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