Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 19:15

"They therefore cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar." — John 19:15 (ASV)

But they cried out, away with him, away with him, crucify him.

Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King?

"How could you call him King, and bring against him a charge of setting up a rival kingdom when you, who would be his subjects, are all crying out, 'Crucify him'?" 'Shall I crucify your King?' Their own actions proved how false they were.

The chief priests answered, we have no king but Caesar.

They said this with all the coolness in the world. The mob had been stirred up and excited, but the chief priests, the principal ecclesiastics of the day, coolly said, we have no king but Caesar.

Did they not recollect that the scepter was not to pass away from Judah until Shiloh came, so that, as it had evidently passed away, Shiloh must have come? After all their Bible-reading, did they not know that? Oh, how easy it is to read much of Scripture and yet to know little about its teaching!

Dear friends, let us not join the Jews in refusing to have Christ as King. They cried, away with him, away with him, when he was set before them as King. Let us not do that, but let us rather accept the Crucified as our Master and Lord, and cheerfully bow at his feet.