John Chapter 19 verse 3 Holy Bible
and they came unto him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him with their hands.
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And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.
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and came to him and said, Hail, king of the Jews! and gave him blows on the face.
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And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
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They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.
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and said, `Hail! the king of the Jews;' and they were giving him slaps.
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John 19 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - They kept on coming to him, and saying to him, in sportive mockery of his supposed Kingship, and utter scorn of the nation whose Messianic hope they derided, Hail, King of the Jews! They did a sham obeisance to him, having elected him, as Roman guards often did, an "imperator" on the field of battle. The offerings which they presented to him were not the kiss of homage, but ῤαπίσματα. They kept on offering him blows on the face, strokes with the hand or with rods (cf. John 18:22, note). Hengstenberg, recalling here (Matthew 27:29) that they put a reed in his hand, symbol of a scepter, supposes that he refused to hold it, in consequence of which they took it from him, and smote him with it. The awful indignity was a wondrous prophecy. Nay, from that very hour he began to reign. That crown of thorns has been more lasting than any royal diadem. Those cruel insults have been the title-deeds of his imperial sway, by which he has mastered the nations. He was wounded, bruised, for the iniquities of us all. The representatives of the outside world thus share expressly in the shame and ban by which the Hebrew theocracy is crushed, and the prince of this world is judged. "They know not what they do;" but Jew and Roman are guilty before God.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) And said, Hail, King of the Jews.--The reading of the better MSS. is, and they kept coming to Him and saying . . . It is a description of the mock reverence which they paid Him. They kept drawing near and bowing before Him. (Comp. Matthew 27:29.)They smote him with their hands.--Comp. Note on John 18:22.(3) That St. John is not careful to give the time more than roughly "about the sixth hour." The hours of that day may well be confused, for their sorrow would have made minutes seem as hours, and the sun, which on other days marked the hours, was on that day itself darkened. St. Matthew is equally uncertain at what exact time there was the cry with a loud voice (Matthew 27:46), and St. Luke does not give the exact time when the darkness commenced (Luke 23:44).
