Matthäus 27:26

Lutherbibel

Da gab er ihnen Barabbas los; aber Jesus ließ er geißeln und überantwortete ihn, daß er gekreuzigt würde.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Da gab er ihnen den Barabbas los; Jesus aber ließ er geißeln und übergab ihn zur Kreuzigung.

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released: Mark 15:15, Luke 23:25

scourged: This of itself was a severe punishment, the flesh being generally cut by the whips used for this purpose. Matthew 20:19, Isaiah 50:6, Isaiah 53:5, Mark 10:34, Luke 18:32, Luke 18:33, Luke 23:16, Luke 23:24, Luke 23:25, John 19:1, John 19:16, 1 Peter 2:24

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 25:2 - General Habakkuk 1:4 - for John 18:40 - General Acts 16:22 - the magistrates Hebrews 11:36 - and scourgings

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then released he Barabbas unto them,.... The seditious person, robber, and murderer, for which crimes he was in prison. This man was an emblem of the persons for whom Christ suffered, both in his character and in his release: in his character; for they are such as have rebelled against God, robbed him of his glory, and destroyed themselves; many of them are notorious sinners, the chief of sinners, and all of them by nature, children of wrath, as others; and as the descendants of Adam, under the sentence of condemnation and death; and yet in Christ, they are children of Abba, Father; being of God predestinated by him, to the adoption of children: and in his release; for when Christ was apprehended, they were let go; when he was bound they were loosed; when he was condemned, they were released, and acquitted; and when the sword of justice was awaked against him, the hand of grace and mercy was turned upon them.

And when he had scourged Jesus; which was done some time before his examination, trial, and condemnation were over, though mentioned here, as appears from John 19:1, and was done by Pilate, in order to move the pity and compassion of the Jews; hoping they would have been satisfied with it, and not have resisted upon his death: and he indeed moved it to them, that he might chastise him and let him go,

Luke 23:22, but nothing would do but crucifixion. Whether the previous scourging sufficed, or whether he was not scourged again upon his condemnation, is not certain: if he was scourged twice, John may be thought to relate the one, and Matthew the other; for certain it is, that it was usual with the Romans to scourge either with rods or whips, just before crucifixion w: our Lord was scourged with whips, as the word here used shows. Persons of birth and blood, and freemen of Rome, were beaten with rods; but such as were servants, which form Christ had taken, were scourged with whips; to which, sometimes were fastened, the hip bones of beasts x; so that this kind of whipping, was very severe and cruel. The Jews themselves own this scourging of Jesus, only they ascribe it to the elders of Jerusalem, and relate it thus y:

"the elders of Jerusalem took Jesus, and brought him to the city, and bound him to a marble pillar in the city, בשוטים

ויכוהו, "and smote him with whips", or "whipped him"; and said unto him, where are all thy miracles which thou hast done?''

Hereby the prophecy in Isaiah 1:6, and our Lord's prediction in

Matthew 20:19, had their accomplishment. This scourging of Christ, was an emblem of the scourges and strokes of divine justice, which he endured in his soul, as the surety of his people; being smitten of God by the sword of justice, as he stood in their place and stead, and stricken for their transgressions; and may furnish out several instructions: as that it is no wonder, if any of the followers of Christ have, do, or shall, meet with such like treatment from men; and that it becomes them to bear patiently the scourges of their heavenly Father, since these are in love; and that they need not fear being trodden down, or carried away by the overflowing scourge of God's wrath, since Christ has endured this in their room. This being done,

he delivered him to be crucified; either into the hands of the Jews, to their will and at their request; or into the hands of his soldiers, to execute the sentence he passed upon him; which was done in a judicial way, and according to the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.

w Lipsius de Cruce l. 2. c. 2. x Ib. c. 3. y Toldos Jesu, p. 17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And when he had scourged Jesus - See the notes at Matthew 10:17. Among the Romans it was customary to scourge or whip a “slave” before he was crucified. This was done to inflict greater suffering. than crucifixion would be alone, and to add to the horrors of the punishment. Our Lord, being about to be put to death after the manner of a slave, was also treated as a slave as one of the lowest and most despised of mankind.

He delivered him to be crucified - Not merely gave him up to them to crucify him, as if they only were answerable, but he gave him up as a judge, when he ought to have saved his life and might have done it. Crucifixion was a Roman punishment; it was performed by Roman soldiers; Pilate pronounced the sentence from a Roman tribunal, and Pilate affixed the title to the cross. Pilate, therefore, as well as the Jews, was answerable to God for the death of the Savior of the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 27:26. Scourged Jesus — This is allowed to have been a very severe punishment of itself among the Romans, the flesh being generally cut by the whips used for this purpose: so the poet: -

----Horribili SECTERE flagello. "To be cut by the horrible whip."-HOR. Sat. I. 3. 119.

And sometimes it seems, they were whipped to death. See the same poet, Sat. I. 2. 41.

----Ille FLAGELLIS

AD MORTEM caesus.----

See also HORAT. Epod. od. iv. v. Matthew 27:11.

It has been thought that Pilate might have spared this additional cruelty of whipping; but it appears that it was a common custom to scourge those criminals which were to be crucified, (see Josephus De Bello, lib. ii. c. 25,) and lenity in Christ's case is not to be allowed; he must take all the misery in full tale.

Delivered him to be crucified. — Tacitos, the Roman historian, mentions the death of Christ in very remarkable terms:-

Nero - quaesitissimis poenis is affecit, quos - vulgus CHRISTIANOS appellabat. Auctor nominis ejus CHRISTUS, qui Tiberio imperitante, per Procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio affectus erat." -

Nero put those who commonly went by the name of Christians to the most exquisite tortures. The author of this name was CHRIST, who was capitally punished in the reign of TIBERIUS, by PONTIUS PILATE the PROCURATOR."