Chapter nineteen continues the morning’s events, skipping Jesus’ short appearance before Herod (Luke 23:6-12). The fifth event in John’s record, then, was Pilate’s second interview with Jesus (John 19:1-16). Still unable to find any reason to execute him, Pilate had him beaten and humiliated instead, hoping that would satisfy the crowd, but it did not. It […]
Chapters eighteen and nineteen cover approximately eighteen hours, from Jesus’ arrest in the garden to his death and burial. Possibly trying to show the rushed way it happened, John only briefly mentioned a series of seven events that happened in a matter of fewer than twelve hours. First, in an amazing display of sovereignty, Jesus
Chapter seventeen is one of the greatest chapters in the entire Bible. Approaching Gethsemane after the Upper Room Discourse Jesus spent time alone in prayer. Although the Synoptics record only that he prayed for God’s will and that he had asked the apostles to join him from a distance, only John gives the actual prayer Jesus
