John 19

When children's hearts are shut up against their parents, the plague is in those hearts. Our blessed Savior took great care for his mother: when he was on the cross, he charged his disciple John to take her home to him as his mother, and see that she wanted nothing (John 19:26-2…

Answ. Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others. John 19:11. He that delivered me to you has the greater sin. The Stoic philosophers held, that all sins were equal.

(3.) The third pillar perseverance is built upon is the mystical union: Believers are incorporated into Christ, they are knit to him as members to the head, by the nerve and ligament of faith, that they cannot be broken off (Ephesians 5:23). What was once said of Christ's natura…

For the Paschal Lamb was a sign of Christ the true Lamb of God, shadowing out diverse things worthy our observation: as first the Lamb; for the Passover was to be a Lamb of a year old, without spot or blemish: which signified unto us, that Christ was that immaculate Lamb of God…

Here then behold the madness of the men of this world, that either seek for this blessing in the last place or not at all. The second testimony of Christ's righteousness given in the midst of his passion was, that he beheld his mother standing by, and commended her to the custod…

Conclusion 1. We hold that Christian charity is to extend itself to the very dead, and it must show itself in their honest burial, in the preservation of their good names, and in the help and relief of their posterity as time and occasion shall be offered (Ruth 1:8; John 19:23).…

See it in David (2 Samuel 16:10): 'Let him alone; it may be God has told him.' And in Christ (John 19:11): 'You could have no power against me, except it were given you from above.' It should much calm our spirits that it is the will of God to permit it; and had not he permitted…

Therefore he will not let them be lost: For their sins he may sometimes lay these Jewels to pawn, as he did, when Israel was in Babylon, but he will recover the pawn. The Church is una cum Christo Caro, Christs mystical body, the least bone whereof he will as surely preserve, as…

And he that sins of set purpose and presumption, or of obstinate and resolued malice against God, has proceeded unto a higher degree of iniquitie, then if he had fallen upon ignorance, infirmity, or disordered and distempered affection. In like manner, the sin of the Jews, in fo…

No man whatever mettle he be of, the finest of men can come, or has power to come to me, and to believe on the only begotten Son of God, except the Father who sent me draw him. We know Christ was much to extol his Father, his Father was ever in his esteem an eminent one, as (Mat…

He had a purse, but no fixed rent, no income by year (Matthew 8:20). He had not on which to buy a grave when he died (John 19:41). The earth was his Father's land; but he lodged in a borrowed grave.

And he came to his own people in his ordinances, and they apprehended him not; but as many as received him of old, to them he gave power to be called the sons of God. But for further opening of this phrase, read John 19:27: he took her home to his own house; it is in the origina…

As he suffered himself to be drawn to death by Satan's instruments, so by the Devil to be translated from place to place. The Officers of the High Priest had power to carry him from the Garden to Annas; from Annas, to Caiaphas; from Caiaphas, to Pilate; from Pilate, to Herod; fr…

To do whatever your hand and counsel determined before to be done. Now this was the more binding being it was a declared counsel in the prophecies and figures of the Old Testament, therefore Christ cried out at his death (John 19:30): It is finished, or accomplished. Meaning pri…

John 5:30: I can of myself do nothing; as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek not my will, but the will of the Father which sent me. And did finish all that was necessary for the redemption of the elect before he died (John 19:30): When Jesus had received the…

I have finished the worke which you gauest me to doe. Againe, in the surrendring of his soule. he says, It is finished, Ioh. 19. 30. S.

When Christ upon the crosse had the pangs of death upon him, he commends his mother to the tuition of John. Ioh. 19. 26. When widdowes and Orphanes are wronged, God himself takes upon him the office of a Tutor in their behalfe.

He had besides his vpper garment, Ioh. 13. 4. and coate without seame. Ioh. 19. 23. Luk 22:36.

Pilate contrary to all equity and law, gave an unjust sentence of death upon him, though he were informed of his innocence (Mark 15:14). And the Roman soldiers greedy of any prey, put the cruel and wicked sentence cruelly and wickedly in execution (John 19:16). Who would not hav…

So then the true meaning of the present passage, in my opinion, is this: ‐Hitherto I have lived among you in humility and kindness, and have discharged the office of a teacher; and now having finished the course of my calling, I shall depart, and it will not be possible for you…

How did Christ observe that ceremony on the day before the whole nation celebrated the public passover? For John plainly affirms that the day on which Christ was crucified was, among the Jews, the preparation, not of the Sabbath, but of the passover, (John 19:14;) and that they…

It is certain that the soldiers did this also according to custom, in dividing among themselves the clothes of a man who had been condemned to die. One circumstance was perhaps peculiar, that they cast lots on a coat which was without seam, (John 19:23.) But though nothing happe…

Fifth, he never was so dealt with as unworthy as in his last sufferings, and yet it is chiefly on account of them that he is accounted worthy. He was then dealt with as if he had not been worthy to live: they cried out, Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him (John 19:15). And…

No Creature can touch us without his commission or permission. I know (says Christ) you couldst have no power against me, except it were given you from above, John 19:11 Neither Men nor Devils can act any thing without Gods leave; and be sure he will sign no order to your prejud…

But further, that which is chiefly here to be observed is, that until God gives commission, Satan has no power over the estates or persons of God's people, or over anything that belongs to them. Neither our persons nor our estates are subject to the will either of men or devils;…

"This is your hour, and the power of darkness." Under these sufferings, Christ having cried out once and again with a loud voice, at last he said, "It is finished," (John 19.30), "and bowed the head, and gave up the ghost." And thus was finished the greatest and most wonderful t…

There must be an incision made in the stock before any bud can be inocculated, or the stock must be cut and cleaved, before the cyence can be ingraffed according to that in the Poet. Venerit insitio, fac ramum ramus adoptet. (i. e.)To graffs, no living sap the stocks impart; Unl…

He keeps silence now, because when he does speak he will be justified. When our Lord Jesus was here upon earth, with what an invincible patience did he endure the contradiction of sinners; when so many ill things were witnessed against him he was silent (Matthew 26:63; John 19:9…

For there is as strong a propension in Satan, and wicked men, to destroy the Saints; as in the fire to burn, or a Lion to devour. O then let me chearfully address my self to the faithful discharge of my duty, and stand no longer in a slavish fear of creatures, who can have no po…

He is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners (Hebrews 7:24), as afterwards will appear; and yet he, who was so white in his innocency, was made ruddy in his own blood: and that two ways. Naturally, in the pouring out of his blood (his precious blood) in that agony of h…

1. God has in general instituted civil government for the good of human society, and still there is good in it, tyranny is better than anarchy. 2. It is by his providence that men are advanced to places of authority (Psalm 75:6-7; Daniel 4:25; John 19:11). Third, it is his comma…

They have their power from God (Romans 13:4): For he is the minister of God to you for good. They hold their power in dependence on him; both natural, their strength and force — You couldest have no power, unless it were given you from above (John 19:10-11) — legal, their author…

Job lost all his children at once by a blast of wind. The Virgin Mary near the cross of Christ: Woman, behold your son (John 19:26). She was affected and afflicted with that sight, as if a sword pierced through her heart.

When justice will deliver the sinner, Satan has no power to hold him. As our Savior said to Pilate, when [illegible] said, I have power to bind you, or to loose you; our Savior [illegible], You had no power, [illegible] was given you from above (John 19:11). So Satan has no powe…

For faith, you must know, is wrought in this manner: The Spirit comes, and shows CHRIST to you, and not onely shows you his merits, not only tells you that he will be a Sauiour, not only tells you of a Kingdom that you shall have by him; but shows you the beauty and excellencie…

If God provides his enemies armes, they shall (I warrant you) be such as will do them little service. When Pilate thought to scare Christ, with what he could do towards the saving or taking away of his life, he replies, that he could do nothing except it were given from above, I…

Oh tha[illegible] by Repentance we could crucifie our sins afresh! The Jews said to Pilate, (John 19:12). If you let this man go, you are not Cesars friend.

God's wise purpose inwardly, and strong hand outwardly, had determined this should be done, that the rulers took counsel to do against Christ, yet compare it with (Psalm 2:2-4), from where it is fetched, and see what the Lord says, The Lord shall have them in derision, and that…

As their Savior: for Christ pierced is, as the sin, so the salvation of all the people of God. The piercing of him made way for the issuing out of that blood, by which we are justified and sanctified (John 19:30, 32, 37), that so the Scripture might be fulfilled. For opening of…

God is alone well pleased in Christ, and till a man be a member of His body, a part of His fullness, he cannot appear in God's presence. This was the reason why Christ would have none of His bones broken, or taken from the communion of His natural body (John 19:36), to note the…