Unto his own home (εις τα ιδια). See this same idiom and sense in 1:11; 16:32; Acts 21:6. John had a lodging in Jerusal…

Behold thy mother! One who is to be to you as a mother. The fact that she was the mother of Jesus would secure John's kindness, and the fa…

Behold your mother!—The solemn committal is a double one. The loving heart of the disciple should find, as well as give, …

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

When …

John 19:23-24a

The harsh brutality of the scene is softened by the allusion to Jesus’ care for his mother. Four women are mentioned here: Mary, the wife of Clopas…

The disciple took her to his own home. It is a sign of the reverence owed by a disciple to his master, that John so readily obeys…

Then says he to the disciple
The same disciple John:

Here are some remarkable circumstances of Jesus' death, more fully related than before. Pilate would not gratify the chief priests by allowing the …

1. The Evangelist has just told of Christ’s crucifixion; now he mentions the events that accompanied and followed it.

   First, as they …