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Matthew Chapter 27 verse 36 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 27:36

and they sat and watched him there.
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BBE Matthew 27:36

And they were seated there watching him.
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DARBY Matthew 27:36

And sitting down, they kept guard over him there.
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KJV Matthew 27:36

And sitting down they watched him there;
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WBT Matthew 27:36


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WEB Matthew 27:36

and they sat and watched him there.
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YLT Matthew 27:36

and sitting down, they were watching him there,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 36. - They watched him there. The soldiers, in relays, had to guard the criminal from any attempt of his friends to remove him from the cross - a long and tedious duty, during the performance of which they were allowed to sit. Crucifixion was not accompanied by immediate death. It was one of its greatest horrors that the tortured sufferer sometimes lived for days before death relieved him from his agony. Till this supervened, the guard had to keep watch. That this caution was not superfluous, we have intimations in ancient history, which tells of crucified persons being sometimes removed by their friends and restored to the use of their limbs and faculties. Josephus ('Vita,' 75) relates that he thus took down three criminals after a lengthened suspension, one of whom completely recovered, though the others succumbed to their injuries. This vigilance of the soldiers was providentially ordered as one of the means of proving the reality of Christ's death.

Ellicott's Commentary