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Joh_19:17-18. The subject of παρέλαβον , which is correlative to παρέδωκεν , Joh_19:16, and of ἤγαγον , is necessarily, according to Joh_19:16, the ἀρχιερεῖς , not the soldiers (De Wette, B. Crusius, Hengstenberg, Baeumlein, and older expositors). The former are the persons[242] who act, which does not exclude the service and co-operation of the soldiers (Joh_19:23).
ΒΑΣΤ . ἙΑΥΤῷ ΤῸΝ ΣΤΑΥΡ . (see critical notes): Himself bearing the cross.[243] See on Mat_26:32, and Charit. iv. 2; and on Golgotha, on Mat_27:33.
ἐντεῦθ . κ . ἐντεῦθ .] Comp. LXX. Dan_12:5; ἜΝΘΕΝ ΚΑῚ ἜΝΘΕΝ , Herod. iv. 175; Soph. Aj. 725; Xen. Cyr. vi. 3. 3; 1Ma_6:38; 1Ma_9:45; 3Ma_2:22, not Rev_22:2. On the thing itself, comp. Luk_23:33. John gives peculiar prominence to the circumstance, adding further, μέσον δὲ τ . Ἰησ . Whether, and how far, the Jews thus acted intentionally, is undetermined. That, perhaps, they scornfully assign to their “king” the place of honour! That Pilate desired thereby to deride them, in allusion to 1Ki_22:19 (B. Crusius, Brückner, Lange), we are not to suppose, since the subject of ἐσταύρ . is the Jews, under whose direction the crucifixion of the principal person takes place, and, at the same time, the two subordinate individuals are put to death along with Him. Pilate first appears, Joh_19:19. Of special divine conceptions in the intermediate position assigned to the cross of Christ (see Steinmeyer, p. 176), John gives no indication.
[242] By which also the fact is confirmed that John had not in his mind the first feast-day, which certainly possessed the authority of the Sabbath.
[243] The assistance of Simon in this, John, who here gives only a compendious account, has passed over as a subordinate circumstance, not, as Scholten thinks, in conformity with the idea that the Son of God needed no human help.