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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 19:18 - 19:18
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they crucified him, and two others with him - “malefactors” (Luk 23:33), “thieves” (rather “robbers,” Mat 27:38; Mar 15:27).
on either side one and Jesus in the midst - a hellish expedient, to hold Him up as the worst of the three. But in this, as in many other of their doings, “the scripture was fulfilled, which saith (Isa 53:12), And he was numbered with the transgressors” - (Mar 15:28) - though the prediction reaches deeper. “Then said Jesus” - [“probably while being nailed to the CROSS,”] [Olshausen], “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO” (Luk 23:34) - and again the Scripture was fulfilled which said, “And He made intercession for the transgressors” (Isa 53:12), though this also reaches deeper. (See Act 3:17; Act 13:27; and compare 1Ti 1:13). Often have we occasion to observe how our Lord is the first to fulfil His own precepts - thus furnishing the right interpretation and the perfect Model of them. (See on Mat 5:44). How quickly was it seen in “His martyr Stephen,” that though He had left the earth in Person, His Spirit remained behind, and Himself could, in some of His brightest lineaments, be reproduced in His disciples! (Act 7:60). And what does the world in every age owe to these few words, spoken where and as they were spoken!