They came (ηρχοντο). Imperfect middle of repeated action, "they kept coming and saying" (ελεγον) in derision and mock reverence wi…

Saint John is not careful to give the time more than roughly about the sixth hour. The hours of that day may well have been confused, for …

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a p…

St. Augustine of Hippo: When the Jews cried out that they did not want Jesus released for the Passover, but Barabbas instead, Pi…

The legionnaires who had administered the scourging amused themselves by a crude joke. Knowing that Jesus was called “king of the Jews,” they threw…

And said, hail, King of the Jews ! &c.] Some copies before this clause read, "and they came unto him"; and so read the Vu…

Little did Pilate think with what holy regard these sufferings of Christ would, in later ages, be considered and spoken of by the best and greatest…

1. Above, the Evangelist gave us an account of what Christ suffered from the Jews; here he describes what He endured from the Gentiles in pa…