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Joh 19:5. Φορῶν, wearing) Pilate did not check the wanton insolence of the soldiers. There was here a rare mixture of jestings and of serious acts.-λέγει, saith) viz. Pilate. For it is to Pilate that they answer in the sixth verse.-ἴδε ὁ ἄνθρωπος, Behold the man) So in Joh 19:14, Behold your King: A gradation, or ascending climax. A similar nominative (exclamatory) occurs in Joh 19:26-27, “Woman, behold thy son (ὁ υἱός σου)-Behold thy mother” (ἡ μήτηρ σου).