--- title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible" author: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 657 of 927 url: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/657/ cite: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, section 657. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/657/" --- # Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible *Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown* The Victorian standard commentary, critical and practical, from Genesis to Revelation. ## 657. John · 13 of 16 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/657/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/657/#p-N [¶0] not for the world--for they had been given Him "out of the world" ([Joh 17:6]), and had been already transformed into the very opposite of it. The things sought for them, indeed, are applicable only to such. [¶1] 15-19. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world--for that, though it would secure their own safety, would leave the world unblessed by their testimony. [¶2] but ... keep them from the evil--all evil in and of the world. [¶3] 20-23. Neither pray I for these alone--This very important explanation, uttered in condescension to the hearers and readers of this prayer in all time, is meant not merely of what follows, but of the whole prayer. [¶4] them also which shall believe--The majority of the best manuscripts read "which believe," all future time being viewed as present, while the present is viewed as past and gone. [¶5] 24-26. Father, I will--The majesty of this style of speaking is quite transparent. No petty criticism will be allowed to fritter it away in any but superficial or perverted readers. [¶6] be with me where I am--(See on [Joh 14:3]). [¶7] that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me--(See on [Joh 17:5]). Christ regards it as glory enough for us to be admitted to see and gaze for ever upon His glory! This is "the beatific vision"; but it shall be no mere vision, for "we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is" ([1Jo 3:2]). ### Chapter 18 ### Joh 18:1-13. Betrayal and Apprehension of Jesus [¶10] 1-3. over the brook Kedron--a deep, dark ravine, to the northeast of Jerusalem, through which flowed this small storm brook or winter torrent, and which in summer is dried up. [¶11] where was a garden--at the foot of the Mount of Olives, "called Gethsemane; that is, olive press ([Mt 26:30], ). [¶12] 4-9. Jesus ... knowing all things that should come--were coming. [¶13] upon him, went forth--from the shade of the trees, probably, into open view, indicating His sublime preparedness to meet His captors. [¶14] Whom seek ye?--partly to prevent a rush of the soldiery upon the disciples [Bengel]; and see [Mr 14:51], , as showing a tendency to this: but still more as part of that courage and majesty which so overawed them. He would not wait to be taken. [¶15] 10-11. Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus--None of the other Evangelists mention the name either of the ardent disciple or of his victim. John being "known to the high priest" ([Joh 18:15]), the mention of the servant's name by him is quite natural, and an interesting mark of truth in a small matter. As to the right ear, specified both here and in Luke ([Lu 22:50]), the man was "likely foremost of those who advanced to seize Jesus, and presented himself in the attitude of a combatant; hence his right side would be exposed to attack. The blow of Peter was evidently aimed vertically at his head" [Webster and Wilkinson]. [¶16] 12. Then the band ... took Jesus--but not till He had made them feel that "no man took His life from Him, but that He laid it down of Himself." [¶17] 13. And led him away--"In that hour," says Matthew ([Mt 26:55], ), and probably now, on the way to judgment, when the crowds were pressing upon Him, "said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief, with swords and staves, for to take Me"--expressive of the indignity which He felt to be thus done to Him--"I sat daily with you in the temple, and ye laid no hold on Me. But this" (adds [Lu 22:53]) "is your hour and the power of darkness." Matthew continues--"But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled" ([Mt 26:56])--thus fulfilling His prediction ([Mr 14:27]; [Joh 16:32]). ### Joh 18:13-27. Jesus before Annas and Caiaphas--Fall of Peter [¶19] 13-14. And led him away to Annas first--(See on [Lu 3:2], and [Mt 26:57]). (Also see on [Mr 14:53].) [¶20] 15-18. Simon Peter followed Jesus--Natural though this was, and safe enough, had he only "watched and prayed that he enter not into temptation," as his Master bade him ([Mt 26:41]), it was, in his case, a fatal step. [¶21] and ... another disciple--Rather, "the other disciple"--our Evangelist himself, no doubt. [¶22] known unto the high priest--(See on [Joh 18:10]). [¶23] went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. [¶24] 19-21. The high priest ... asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine--probably to entrap Him into some statements which might be used against Him at the trial. From our Lord's answer it would seem that "His disciples" were understood to be some secret party. (Also see on [Mr 14:54].) [¶25] 22. struck Jesus with the palm ... Answerest Thou the high priest so--(See [Is 50:6]; and compare [Ac 23:2]). (Also see on [Mr 14:54].) [¶26] 23. If I have spoken, &c.--"if I spoke" evil, in reply to the high priest. (Also see on [Mr 14:54].) [¶27] if well--He does not say "If not" evil, as if His reply were merely unobjectionable: "well" seems to challenge more than this as due to His remonstrance This shows that [Mt 5:39] is not to be taken to the letter. [¶28] 24-27. Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas--Our translators so render the words, understanding that the foregoing interview took place before Caiaphas; Annas, declining to meddle with the case, having sent Him to Caiaphas at once. But the words here literally are, "Annas sent Him [not 'had sent Him'] to Caiaphas"--and the "now" being of doubtful authority. Thus read, the verse affords no evidence that He was sent to Caiaphas before the interview just recorded, but implies rather the contrary. We take this interview, then, with some of the ablest interpreters, to be a preliminary and non-official one with Annas, at an hour of the night when Caiaphas' Council could not convene; and one that ought not to be confounded with that solemn one recorded by the other Evangelists, when all were assembled and witnesses called. But the building in which both met with Jesus appears to have been the same, the room only being different, and the court, of course, in that case, one. (Also see on [Mr 14:54].) [¶29] 28. Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment--but not till "in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council against Him to put Him to death, and bound Him" ([Mt 27:1]; and see on [Mr 15:1]). The word here rendered "hall of judgment" is from the Latin, and denotes "the palace of the governor of a Roman province." [¶30] they themselves went not into the judgment hall lest they should be defiled--by contact with ceremonially unclean Gentiles. [¶31] but that they might eat the passover--If this refer to the principal part of the festival, the eating of the lamb, the question is, how our Lord and His disciples came to eat it the night before; and, as it was an evening meal, how ceremonial defilement contracted in the morning would unfit them for partaking of it, as after six o'clock it was reckoned a new day. These are questions which have occasioned immense research and learned treatises. But as the usages of the Jews appear to have somewhat varied at different times, and our present knowledge of them is not sufficient to clear up all difficulties, they are among the not very important questions which probably will never be entirely solved. [¶32] 29-32. Pilate went out to them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?--State your charge. [¶33] 33-38. Pilate ... called Jesus, and said ... Art thou the King of the Jews?--In [Lu 23:2] they charge our Lord before Pilate with "perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, saying that He Himself is Christ a king." Perhaps this was what occasioned Pilate's question. [¶34] 39. But ye have a custom that I should release one unto you at the passover, &c.--See on [Mr 15:7-11]. "On the typical import of the choice of Christ to suffer, by which Barabbas was set free, see the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus, particularly [Le 16:5-10], where the subject is the sin offering on the great day of atonement" [Krafft in Luthardt]. ### Chapter 19 ### Joh 19:1-16. Jesus before Pilate--Scourged--Treated with Other Severities and Insults--Delivered Up, and Led Away to Be Crucified [¶37] 1-3. Pilate took Jesus and scourged him--in hope of appeasing them. (See [Mr 15:15]). "And the soldiers led Him away into the palace, and they call the whole band" ([Mr 15:16])--the body of the military cohort stationed there--to take part in the mock coronation now to be enacted. [¶38] 4-5. Pilate ... went forth again, and saith ... Behold, I bring him forth to you--am bringing, that is, going to bring him forth to you. [¶39] that ye may know I find no fault in him--and, by scourging Him and allowing the soldiers to make sport of Him, have gone as far to meet your exasperation as can be expected from a judge. [¶40] 6-7. When the chief priests ... saw him, they cried out--their fiendish rage kindling afresh at the sight of Him. [¶41] Crucify him, crucify him--(See [Mr 15:14]). [¶42] Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him; for I find no fault in him--as if this would relieve him of the responsibility of the deed, who, by surrendering Him, incurred it all! [¶43] 8-11. When Pilate ... heard this saying, he was the more afraid--the name "Son of God," the lofty sense evidently attached to it by His Jewish accusers, the dialogue he had already held with Him, and the dream of his wife ([Mt 27:19]), all working together in the breast of the wretched man. [¶44] 12-16. And from thenceforth--particularly this speech, which seems to have filled him with awe, and redoubled his anxiety.