John 19


John 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel. This chapter records the events on the day of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, until his burial.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 42 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
Events recorded in this chapter took place in Jerusalem.

Verse 1

According to Scottish Free Church minister William Nicoll, the scourging was meant as a compromise by Pilate, undertaken "in the ill-judged hope that this minor punishment might satisfy the Jews". Pilate went on to declare that he found no fault in Jesus.

Verse 3

Cross reference:, ; ;

Verse 5

"Behold the Man": Ecce homo in Vulgate Latin; in the original Ἴδε ὁ ἄνθρωπος, .

Verse 6

Verse 19 in Greek

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Verse 19 in Latin

Verse 20

Verse 21

Verse 22

Verse 22 in Greek

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Verse 22 in Latin

Verse 23

Verse 24

Citing:

Verse 25

Verse 26

Verse 27

"That hour" may indicate that "they did not wait at the cross to see the end and the disciple took her to his own home"; εἰς τὰ ἴδια, see,. Mary would live with John and his natural mother, Salome, who is also Mary's sister.

Verse 28

Referring to:

Verse 29

Verse 30 in Greek

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Verse 30 in Latin

Verse 31

Preparation Day was the day before the Passover. Verse 42 refers to this day as "the Jews' Preparation Day". Alfred Plummer, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, suggests that "the addition of 'the Jews' may point to the time when there was already a Christian ‘preparation-day'".

Verse 40