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John 19:14
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It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about noon. Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!”
And it was the preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and he saith vnto the Iewes, Beholde your King.
Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"
Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Look, your King!"
It was about noon on Preparation Day of Passover week. Pilate said to the crowd, "Here is your king!"
Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover [week], and it was about the sixth hour (noon). He said to the Jews, "Look, your King!"
Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, "Here is your King!"
It was about noon on the day before Passover, and Pilate said to the crowd, "Look at your king!"
it was about noon on Preparation Day for Pesach. He said to the Judeans, "Here's your king!"
(now it was [the] preparation of the passover; it was about the sixth hour;) and he says to the Jews, Behold your king!
It was now almost noon on Preparation day of Passover week. Pilate said to the Jews, "Here is your king!"
And it was the Preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and hee sayde vnto the Iewes, Beholde your King.
It was Friday of the passover, and it was about six o''clock; and he said to the Jews, Behold your king!
It was then almost noon of the day before the Passover. Pilate said to the people, "Here is your king!"
(Now it was the day of preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, "Behold your king!"
And it was the Preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, Behold, your King!
Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, your King!
(It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!
Now it was the Preparation of the Pesach, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Yehudim, "Behold, your King!"
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And it was the preparation for the petscha. AND it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jihudoyee, Behold your king !
And it was the preparation for the passover; and it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews: Behold, your king.
It was the preparyng of ye Passouer, and about the sixt houre: And he sayth vnto the Iewes, beholde your kyng.
Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, your King!
Now it was the Preparation of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
(It was then the preparation of the passover, and about the third hour:) And saith to the Jews, Behold your king.
It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!"
And it was pask eue, as it were the sixte our. And he seith to the Jewis, Lo! youre king.
Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, Look, your King!
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews, Behold your King!
(Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, here is your king!"
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"
It was now about noon on the day of preparation for the Passover. And Pilate said to the people, "Look, here is your king!"
It was the day to get ready for the special religious gathering to remember how the Jews left Egypt. It was about noon. Pilate said to the Jews, "See, your King!"
Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, "Here is your King!"
Now it was the preparation of the passover, - it was about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews - See! your King!
And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.
Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"
It was the Saboth even which falleth in the ester fest and aboute the sixte houre. And he sayde vnto the Iewes: beholde youre kynge.
and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, `Lo, your king!'
It was the daye of preparinge of the Easter aboute the sixte houre. And he sayde vnto the Iewes: Beholde yor kynge.
it was then about the sixth hour of the day before the sabbath of the passover: and he said to the Jews, behold your king.
It was now about noon on the day of preparation of the Passover."Here is your king," Pilate announced.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the preparation: John 19:31, John 19:32, John 19:42, Matthew 27:62, Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54
the sixth: Instead of ×××¤× [Strong's G1623], sixth, several manuscripts and fathers have פס××¤× [Strong's G5154], third, as in the parallel place. Mark 15:25, Mark 15:33, Mark 15:34
Behold: John 19:3, John 19:5, John 19:19-22
Reciprocal: Isaiah 53:2 - he hath no Micah 5:2 - that is Zechariah 13:6 - I was Matthew 26:68 - thou Matthew 27:22 - What Mark 15:9 - Will Mark 15:12 - What Mark 15:18 - Hail John 18:28 - eat 1 Corinthians 5:7 - Christ
Cross-References
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord , as ye have said.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it was the preparation of the passover,.... So the Jews x say, that Jesus suffered on the eve of the passover; and the author of the blasphemous account of his life says y, it was the eve both of the passover and the sabbath; which account so far agrees with the evangelic history; but then this preparation of the passover was not of the passover lamb, for that had been prepared and eaten the night before. Nor do I find that there was any particular day which was called "the preparation of the passover" in such sense, and much less that this day was the day before the eating of the passover. According to the law in Exodus 12:3 the lamb for the passover was to be separated from the rest of the flock on the tenth day of the month, and to be kept up till the fourteenth; but this is never called the preparation of the passover; and was it so called, it cannot be intended here; the preparing and making ready the passover the evangelists speak of, were on the same day it was eaten, and design the getting ready a place to eat it in, and things convenient for that purpose, and the killing the lamb, and dressing it, and the like, Matthew 26:17 there is what the Jews call פר×ס ×פס×, which was a space of fifteen days before the passover, and began at the middle of the thirty days before the feast, in which they used to ask questions, and explain the traditions concerning the passover z: but this is never called the preparation of the passover: and on the night of the fourteenth month they sought diligently, in every hole and corner of their houses, for leavened bread, in order to remove it a; but this also never went by any such name: wherefore, if any respect is had to the preparation for the passover, it must either design the preparation of the "Chagigah", which was a grand festival, commonly kept on the fifteenth day, and which was sometimes called the passover; or else the preparation for the whole feast all the remaining days of it; Matthew 26:17- : but it seems best of all to understand it only of the preparation for the sabbath, which, because it was in the passover week, is called the passover preparation day: and it may be observed, that it is sometimes only called "the day of the preparation", and "the preparation",
Matthew 27:62 and sometimes the "Jews' preparation day", John 19:42 and it is explained by the Evangelist
Mark 15:42. "It was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath"; on which they both prepared themselves for the sabbath, and food to eat on that day; and this being the time of the passover likewise, the preparation was the greater: and therefore to distinguish this preparation day for the sabbath, from others, it is called the passover preparation; nor have I observed that any other day is called the preparation but that before the sabbath: the Jews dispute about preparing food for the sabbath on a feast day, as this was; they seem to forbid it, but afterwards soften their words, and allow it with some provisos: their canon runs thus b;
"a feast day which falls on the eve of the sabbath, a man may not boil (anything) at the beginning of the feast day for the sabbath; but he may boil for the feast day; and if there is any left, it may be left for the sabbath; and he may make a boiling on the eve of a feast day, and depend on it for the sabbath: the house of Shamtoni say two boilings; and the house of Hillell say one boiling.''
Bartenora on the passage observes, that some say the reason of this boiling on the evening of a feast day, is for the honour of the sabbath; for because from the evening of the feast day, the sabbath is remembered, that which is best is chosen for the sabbath, that the sabbath may not be forgotten through the business of the feast day. The account Maimonides c gives of this matter is,
"on a common day they "prepare" for the sabbath, and on a common day they prepare for a feast day; but they do not prepare on a feast day for the sabbath, nor is the sabbath, ×××× ×, "a preparation" for a feast day.''
This seems to be contrary to the practice of the Jews in the time of Christ, as related by the evangelists, understanding by the preparation they speak of, a preparation of food for the sabbath; but what he afterwards says d makes some allowance for it:
"a feast day, which happens to be on the eve of the sabbath, (Friday,) they neither bake nor boil, on a feast day what is eaten on the morrow, on the sabbath; and this prohibition is from the words of the Scribes, (not from the word of God,) that a man should not boil any thing on a feast day for a common day, and much less for the sabbath; but if he makes a boiling (or prepares food) on the evening of a feast day on which he depends and boils and bakes on a feast day for the sabbath, lo, this is lawful; and that on which he depends is called the mingling of food.''
And this food, so called, was a small portion of food prepared on a feast for the sabbath, though not less than the quantity of an olive, whether for one man or a thousand e; by virtue of which, they depending on it for the sabbath, they might prepare whatever they would, after having asked a blessing over it, and saying f,
"by this mixture it is free for me to bake and boil on a feast day what is for the morrow, the sabbath; and if a man prepares for others, he must say for me, and for such an one, and such an one; or for the men of the city, and then all of them may bake and boil on a feast day for the sabbath.''
And about the sixth hour; to which agrees the account in Matthew 27:45,
Luke 23:44 but Mark 15:25 says that "it was the third hour, and they crucified him"; and Beza says, he found it so written in one copy; and so read Peter of Alexandria, Beza's ancient copy, and some others, and Nonnus: but the copies in general agree in, and confirm the common reading, and which is differently accounted for; some by the different computations of the Jews and Romans; others by observing that the day was divided into four parts, each part containing three hours, and were called the third, the sixth, the ninth, and the twelfth hours; and not only that time, when one of these hours came, was called by that name, but also from that all the space of the three hours, till the next came, was called by the name of the former: for instance, all the space from nine o'clock till twelve was called "the third hour"; and all from twelve till three in the afternoon "the sixth hour": hence the time of Christ's crucifixion being supposed to be somewhat before, but yet near our twelve of the clock, it may be truly here said that it was about the sixth hour; and as truly by Mark the third hour; that space, which was called by the name of the third hour, being not yet passed, though it drew toward an end. This way go Godwin and Hammond, whose words I have expressed, and bids fair for the true solution of the difficulty: though it should be observed, that Mark agrees with the other evangelists about the darkness which was at the sixth hour, the time of Christ's crucifixion, Mark 15:33 and it is to be remarked, that he does not say that it was the third hour "when" they crucified him, or that they crucified him at the third hour; but it was the third hour, "and" they crucified him, as Dr. Lightfoot observes. It was the time of day when they should have been at the daily sacrifice, and preparing for the solemnity of that day particularly, which was their Chagigah, or grand feast; but instead of this they were prosecuting his crucifixion, which they brought about by the sixth hour. And about this time Pilate said, and did the following things:
and he saith unto the Jews, behold your king; whom some of your people, it seems, have owned for their king, and you charge as setting up himself as one; see what a figure he makes; does he look like a king? this he said, in order to move upon their affections, that, if possible, they might agree to release him, and to shame them out of putting such a poor despicable creature to death; and as upbraiding them for their folly, in fearing anything from so mean and contemptible a man.
x T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 43. 1. & 67. 1. y Toldos Jesu, p. 18. z Misn. Shekalim, c. 3. sect. 1. & Bartenora in ib. T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 6. 1. a Misn. Pesachim, c. 1. sect. 1, 2, 3. b Misn. Betza, c. 2. sect. 1. c Hilchot Yom Tob. c. 1. sect. 19. d Ib. c. 6. sect. 1. e Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Betza, c. 2. sect. 1. f Maimon. Hilchot Yom Tob, c. 6. sect. 8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The preparation of the passover - See the notes at Mark 15:42.
The sixth hour - Twelve oâclock noon. Mark says Mark 15:25 that it was the third hour. See the difficulty explained in the notes at that place.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 19:14. It was the preparation of the Passover — That is, the time in which they were just preparing to kill the paschal lamb. Critics differ widely concerning the time of our Lord's crucifixion; and this verse is variously understood. Some think it signifies merely the preparation of the Sabbath; and that it is called the preparation of the passover, because the preparation of the Sabbath happened that year on the eve of the Passover. Others think that the preparation of the Sabbath is distinctly spoken of in John 19:31, and was different from what is here mentioned. Contending nations may be more easily reconciled than contending critics.
The sixth hour — Mark says, Mark 15:25, that it was the third hour. ÏÏιÏη, the third, is the reading of DL, four others, the Chron. Alex., Seuerus Antiochen., Ammonius, with others mentioned by Theophylact. Nonnus, who wrote in the fifth century, reads ÏÏιÏη, the third. As in ancient times all the numbers were written in the manuscripts not at large but in numeral letters, it was easy for γ three, to be mistaken for Ï six. The Codex Bezae has generally numeral letters instead of words. Bengel observes that he has found the letter γ gamma, THREE, exceedingly like the Ï episemon, SIX, in some MSS. Episemon = greek 'st' combined, similar appearance to final form sigma with a nearly flat top. Similar appearance to upper case gamma. The major part of the best critics think that ÏÏιÏη, the third, is the genuine reading. Mark 15:25; Mark 15:25.
Behold your king! — This was probably intended as an irony; and, by thus turning their pretended serious apprehensions into ridicule, he hoped still to release him.
