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The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. See also: Matthew 27:1-2Mark 15:1-5Luke 22:66They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.” See also: Acts 17:6-7Luke 23:14John 19:12Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.” See also: John 1:491 Timothy 6:13Luke 22:70Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.” See also: John 18:381 Peter 2:22Hebrews 7:26But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.” See also: John 1:43John 2:11Mark 1:14But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean. See also: Acts 5:37Luke 13:1When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days. See also: Luke 3:1Luke 13:31Matthew 14:1Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. See also: Mark 6:14Luke 9:7-9Matthew 14:1He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. See also: Matthew 27:141 Peter 2:23Psalms 39:1-2The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. See also: Luke 23:14-15Acts 24:5Luke 11:53Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. See also: Mark 15:16-20Matthew 27:27-30Isaiah 53:3Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other. See also: Acts 4:27Revelation 17:13-14Matthew 16:1Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, See also: John 18:38Matthew 27:21-23Mark 15:14and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. See also: Daniel 6:4Hebrews 7:26Luke 23:1-2Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.” See also: Matthew 27:26Luke 23:22Mark 15:15Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”— See also: Acts 3:14Acts 21:36Acts 22:22one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder. See also: Acts 3:14Luke 23:5Luke 23:2Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, See also: Mark 15:15Matthew 14:8-9John 19:12but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!” See also: Luke 23:23Mark 15:13Matthew 27:22-25He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.” See also: Luke 23:141 Peter 1:19Luke 23:16But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. See also: Zechariah 11:8Psalms 57:4Psalms 22:12-13Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. See also: Matthew 27:26Proverbs 17:15Exodus 23:2He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will. See also: Acts 3:14Mark 15:6-7Mark 15:15When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it after Jesus. See also: Matthew 27:32-44Mark 15:21-32Acts 13:1A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him. See also: Luke 8:52Luke 8:2Mark 15:40But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. See also: Song of Songs 8:4Song of Songs 5:16Song of Songs 1:5For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ See also: Matthew 24:19Luke 21:23-24Mark 13:17-19Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’ See also: Revelation 6:16Hosea 10:8Isaiah 2:19For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?” See also: 1 Peter 4:17-18John 15:6Proverbs 11:31There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death. See also: Mark 15:27Isaiah 53:12Matthew 27:38When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. See also: Mark 15:22-23John 19:17-18Zechariah 12:10Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots. See also: Matthew 5:44Acts 7:601 Peter 3:9The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!” See also: Psalms 22:17Isaiah 42:11 Peter 2:4The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, See also: Psalms 69:21Matthew 27:48Matthew 27:34and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” See also: Matthew 27:37Mark 15:26John 19:19-22One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!” See also: Matthew 27:44Mark 15:32Luke 23:35But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? See also: Revelation 15:4Psalms 36:1Ephesians 5:11And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.” See also: Leviticus 26:40-41Ezra 9:13Matthew 27:4He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.” See also: Romans 10:9-14Acts 16:311 John 5:11-13Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” See also: Revelation 2:7Psalms 50:151 Timothy 1:15-16It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. See also: Matthew 27:45Mark 15:33-34Amos 8:9The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. See also: Hebrews 10:19-22Matthew 27:51Hebrews 9:3-8Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last. See also: Psalms 31:5Acts 7:59John 19:30When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.” See also: Mark 15:39Matthew 27:54Luke 23:41All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their chests. See also: Luke 18:13Acts 2:37Jeremiah 31:19All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things. See also: Luke 8:2Psalms 38:11Luke 23:55Behold, there was a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man See also: John 19:38-42Acts 10:22Acts 11:24(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom. See also: Luke 2:25Luke 2:38Genesis 37:21-22This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. See also: John 19:38-42He took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. See also: Matthew 27:59-60Mark 15:46Isaiah 53:9It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. See also: Matthew 27:62John 19:31Mark 15:42The women who had come with him out of Galilee followed after, and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. See also: Luke 23:49Mark 15:47Luke 8:2They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. See also: Luke 24:1Mark 16:1Deuteronomy 5:14
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Luke 23:7
Ver. 7. He sent him away to Herod. Pilate, in this instance, not only extricated himself from the importunities of the Jewish priests, (v. 5) but moreover obeyed the Roman law in that particular, which forbade any one to be condemned by a governor to whom he was not the subject. Theophylactus.
↑ 7Luke 23:11
Ver. 11. And mocked him. It is evident from the behaviour of Herod on this occasion, that he was far from believing him to be that seditious person he was represented; otherwise he would have undoubtedly treated his prisoner with less ridicule, and paid more serious attention to the accusations of his enemies. Theophylactus. — Putting on him a white garment. The Greek signifies not only a white, but a shining splendid robe: perhaps with some resemblance to royal garments, but at the same time through scorn and derision. Wi.
↑ 11Luke 23:15
Ver. 15. Nothing worthy of death is done to him. Herod has not treated him as a criminal, or one worthy of death. He only derided him as a fool: had there been any cause to punish him, he would not have failed to have done it himself, or commanded me to put him to death. Calmet.
↑ 15Luke 23:16
Ver. 16. It was a very common punishment among the Jews to scourge those who had committed crimes for which death would have been too severe.
According to the laws of the Hebrews, (Deut. xxv. 3.) the number of blows could not exceed thirty-nine. Pilate dares not condemn Jesus to death, because he believes him innocent; yet not to disoblige the people and magistrates, who demanded his death, he takes a middle way, which, as is usual in such cases, satisfies neither party. He neither saves the innocent Victim, nor satisfies justice. In lieu of one punishment, Jesus suffers two. He is at length both scourged and crucified. Calmet.
↑ 16Luke 23:28
Ver. 28. Weep not over me. If you knew the evils that threaten and must soon fall upon your city, upon yourselves, and upon your children, you would preserve your tears to deplore your own misfortunes. My death is for the good of mankind; but it will be fatal to your nation because you have been pleased to make it so. In the ruin of Jerusalem, which is at hand, happy shall they be who have no children. They shall save themselves the grief of seeing their sons and daughters perish miserably, and in some sort of suffering as many deaths as they have children to die. Calmet.
↑ 28Luke 23:31
Ver. 31. In the green wood: by which are signified persons of virtue and sanctity; as by the dry wood, the wicked, who bring forth no fruit, and who, like dry wood, are fit to be cast into the fire. Wi. — If they be thus cruel with me, how will they treat you!
↑ 31Luke 23:33
Ver. 33. Called Calvary. A place at a small distance from Jerusalem, where condemned malefactors were beheaded. So Christ, as a malefactor, dies on Calvary for the redemption of all: that where sin abounded, grace might more abound. Ven. Bede. — In this mountain, according to the Hebrew doctors, were interred the remains of our protoparent, Adam. Athana.
↑ 33Luke 23:43
Ver. 43. I say to thee: This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise; i.e. in a place of rest with the souls of the just. The construction is not, I say to thee this day,
&c., but, thou shalt be with me this day in the paradise. Wi. — In paradise. That is, in the happy state of rest, joy and peace everlasting. Christ was pleased by a special privilege, to reward the faith and confession of the penitent thief with a full discharge of all his sins, both as to the guilt and punishment, and to introduce him, immediately after death, into the happy society of the saints, whose limbo (that is, the place of their confinement) was now made a paradise by our Lord's going thither. Ch. — The soul of the good thief was that same day with Jesus Christ, in the felicity of the saints, in Abraham's bosom, or in heaven, where Jesus was always present by his divinity. S. Aug. — S. Cyril, of Jerusalem, says he entered heaven before all the patriarchs and prophets. S.
Chrys. thinks that paradise was immediately open to him, and that he entered heaven the first mankind.—Tom. v. homil. 32.
↑ 43Luke 23:51
Ver. 51. Arimathea. In other parts of Scripture it is called Ramatha, a city of Judea, where Samuel, the prophet, was born. Ven. Bede.
↑ 51Luke 23:52
Ver. 52. This man went to Pilate. We may suppose that from his rank and condition in life, he had always access to Pilate.
↑ 52Luke 23:54
Ver. 54. Parasceve. That is, the eve or day of preparation for the sabbath. Ch.
— And the sabbath drew near. Lit. shined. The sabbath began in the evening, at sunset. It may, perhaps, be said to shine by the moonlight, at full-moon, or because of a great many lights that used to be set up at that time, on account of the great sabbath. Wi. — We learn from Maimon, that all the Jews were so strictly bound to keep a light in their dwellings on the sabbath-day, that although a man had not bread to eat, he was expected to be from door to door, to purchase oil for his lamp. P.
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↑ 54License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses