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Passage 1: Deuteronomy 6-7

(Deu 6:1) These now are the commandements, ordinances, and lawes, which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye go to possesse it:

(Deu 6:2) That thou mightest feare the Lord thy God, and keepe all his ordinances, and his commandements which I commaund thee, thou, and thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne all the dayes of thy life, euen that thy dayes may be prolonged.

(Notes Reference) That thou mayest (a) fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

(a) A reverent face and love for God is the first beginning to keeping God's commandments.

(Deu 6:3) Heare therefore, O Israel, and take heede to doe it, that it may go well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily in the land that floweth with milke and hony, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

(Notes Reference) Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, (b) in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

(b) Which has an abundance of all things needed for man's life.

(Deu 6:4) Heare, O Israel, The Lord our God is Lord onely,

(Deu 6:5) And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.

(Deu 6:6) And these wordes which I commaund thee this day, shalbe in thine heart.

(Deu 6:7) And thou shalt rehearse them continually vnto thy children, and shalt talke of them when thou tariest in thine house, and as thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp:

(Notes Reference) And thou shalt (c) teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. (teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen)

(c) Some read, "You shall whet them upon your children": that is, that they may imprint them more deeply in their memory.

(Deu 6:8) And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.

(Deu 6:9) Also thou shalt write them vpon ye postes of thine house, and vpon thy gates.

(Notes Reference) And thou shalt write them upon the (d) posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

(d) That when you enter in you may remember them.

(Deu 6:10) And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue to thee, with great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not,

(Deu 6:11) And houses full of all maner of goods which thou filledst not, and welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards and oliue trees which thou plantedst not, and when thou hast eaten and art full,

(Deu 6:12) Beware least thou forget the Lord, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

(Notes Reference) (e) [Then] beware lest thou shouldest forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. (bondage: Heb. bondmen or, servants)

(e) Do not let wealth and ease cause you to forget God's mercies, by which you were delivered out of misery.

(Deu 6:13) Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, and serue him, and shalt sweare by his Name.

(Notes Reference) Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt (f) swear by his name.

(f) We must fear God, serve him only and confess his Name, which is done by swearing lawfully.

(Deu 6:14) Ye shall not walke after other gods, after any of the gods of the people which are round about you,

(Deu 6:15) (For the Lord thy God is a ielous God among you:) least the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from the face of the earth.

(Deu 6:16) Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye did tempt him in Massah:

(Notes Reference) Ye shall not (g) tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.

(g) By doubting his power, refusing lawful means, and abusing his graces.

(Deu 6:17) But ye shall keepe diligently the commandements of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,

(Deu 6:18) And thou shalt doe that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that thou mayest prosper, and that thou mayest go in, and possesse that good land which the Lord sware vnto thy fathers,

(Notes Reference) And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the (h) sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to thy fathers,

(h) Here he condemns all of man's good intentions.

(Deu 6:19) To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lord hath sayd.

(Deu 6:20) When thy sonne shall aske thee in time to come, saying, What meane these testimonies, and ordinances, and Lawes, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

(Notes Reference) [And] when (i) thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?

(i) God not only requires that we serve him all our lives, but also that we see that our posterity sets forth his glory.

(Deu 6:21) Then shalt thou say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt: but the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hand.

(Deu 6:22) And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his housholde, before our eyes,

(Deu 6:23) And brought vs out from thence, to bring vs in, and to giue vs the land which he sware vnto our fathers.

(Notes Reference) And he (k) brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

(k) Nothing should move us more to true obedience than the great benefits which we have received from God.

(Deu 6:24) Therefore the Lord hath commanded vs, to doe all these ordinances, and to feare the Lord our God, that it may goe euer well with vs, and that he may preserue vs aliue as at this present.

(Deu 6:25) Moreouer, this shall be our righteousnes before the Lord our God, if we take heede to keepe all these commandements, as he hath commanded vs.

(Notes Reference) And it shall be our (l) righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

(l) Because no one can fully obey the law, we must turn to Christ to be justified by faith.

(Deu 7:1) When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possesse it, and shall roote out many nations before thee: the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, seuen nations greater and mightier then thou,

(Deu 7:2) And the Lord thy God shall giue them before thee, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt vtterly destroy them: thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor haue compassion on them,

(Notes Reference) And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them (a) before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

(a) Into thy power.

(Deu 7:3) Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither giue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne.

(Deu 7:4) For they wil cause thy sonne to turne away from me, and to serue other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you and destroy thee suddenly.

(Deu 7:5) But thus ye shall deale with them, Ye shall ouerthrowe their altars, and breake downe their pillars, and ye shall cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images with fire.

(Notes Reference) But thus shall ye deal with them; (b) ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

(b) God would have his service pure without idolatrous ceremonies and superstitions. (Deu_12:3).

(Deu 7:6) For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all people that are vpon the earth.

(Deu 7:7) The Lord did not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you, because ye were more in number then any people: for ye were the fewest of all people:

(Deu 7:8) But because the Lord loued you, and because hee would keepe the othe which hee had sworne vnto your fathers, the Lord hath brought you out by a mightie hand, and deliuered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt,

(Notes Reference) But because the LORD (c) loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

(c) Freely, finding no cause in you more than in others so to do.

(Deu 7:9) That thou mayest knowe, that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithfull God which keepeth couenant and mercie vnto them that loue him and keepe his commandements, euen to a thousand generations,

(Notes Reference) Know therefore (d) that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

(d) And so put difference between him and idols.

(Deu 7:10) And rewardeth them to their face that hate him, to bring them to destruction: he wil not deferre to reward him that hateth him, to his face.

(Notes Reference) And repayeth (e) them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

(e) Meaning revealed, or in this life.

(Deu 7:11) Keepe thou therefore the commandements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.

(Deu 7:12) For if ye hearken vnto these lawes, and obserue and doe them, then the Lord thy God shall keepe with thee the couenant, and the mercie which he sware vnto thy fathers.

(Notes Reference) Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the (f) mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

(f) This covenant is grounded in his free grace: therefore in recompensing their obedience, he respects his mercy and not their merits.

(Deu 7:13) And he wil loue thee, and blesse thee, and multiplie thee: he will also blesse the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy land, thy corne and thy wine, and thine oyle and the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe in the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee.

(Deu 7:14) Thou shalt be blessed aboue all people: there shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattell.

(Deu 7:15) Moreouer, the Lord will take away from thee all infirmities, and will put none of the euill diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) vpon thee, but wil send them vpon all that hate thee.

(Deu 7:16) Thou shalt therefore consume all people which the Lord thy God shall giue thee: thine eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serue their gods, for that shalbe thy destruction.

(Notes Reference) And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; (g) thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.

(g) We should not be merciful when God commands severity.

(Deu 7:17) If thou say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, how can I cast them out?

(Deu 7:18) Thou shalt not feare them, but remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Pharaoh, and vnto all Egypt:

(Deu 7:19) The great tentations which thine eyes sawe, and the signes and wonders, and the mighty hand and stretched out arme, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do vnto all ye people, whose face thou fearest.

(Deu 7:20) Moreouer, the Lord thy God will send hornets among them vntil they that are left, and hide themselues from thee, be destroyed.

(Notes Reference) Moreover the LORD thy God will send the (h) hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

(h) There is not a creature so small, that I will not arm it to fight on your side against them.

(Deu 7:21) Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a God mightie and dreadful.

(Deu 7:22) And the Lord thy God wil roote out these nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, least the beasts of the fielde increase vpon thee.

(Notes Reference) And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the (i) beasts of the field increase upon thee.

(i) It is to your advantage that God does not accomplish his promise as soon as you would wish.

(Deu 7:23) But the Lord thy God shall giue them before thee, and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction, vntill they be brought to naught.

(Deu 7:24) And he shall deliuer their Kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from vnder heauen: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, vntill thou hast destroyed them.

(Deu 7:25) The grauen images of their gods shall ye burne with fire, and couet not the siluer and golde, that is on them, nor take it vnto thee, least thou be snared therewith: for it is an abomination before the Lord thy God.

(Notes Reference) The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou (k) be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

(k) And be enticed to idolatry.

(Deu 7:26) Bring not therefore abomination into thine house, lest, thou be accursed like it, but vtterly abhorre it, and count it most abominable: for it is accursed.

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Passage 2: Ecclesiastes 2

(Ecc 2:1) I said in mine heart, Goe to nowe, I will proue thee with ioy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and beholde, this also is vanitie.

(Notes Reference) I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (a) thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

(a) Solomon makes this discourse with himself, as though he would try whether there was contentment in ease and pleasures.

(Ecc 2:2) I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

(Ecc 2:3) I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.

(Notes Reference) I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with (b) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

(b) Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.

(Ecc 2:4) I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards.

(Ecc 2:5) I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

(Ecc 2:6) I haue made me cisternes of water, to water therewith the woods that growe with trees.

(Ecc 2:7) I haue gotten seruants and maides, and had children borne in the house: also I had great possession of beeues and sheepe aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem.

(Notes Reference) I procured [me] male and female servants, and had servants born in my (c) house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

(c) Meaning, of the servants or slaves which he had bought, so the children born in their servitude, were the masters.

(Ecc 2:8) I haue gathered vnto me also siluer and gold, and the chiefe treasures of Kings and prouinces: I haue prouided me men singers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, and women taken captiues.

(Notes Reference) I gathered me also silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces: I procured me male and female singers, and the (d) delights of the sons of men, (e) [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts.

(d) That is, whatever men take pleasure in.

(e) Or, the most beautiful of the women that were taken in war, as in (Jdg 5:30).

(Ecc 2:9) And I was great, and increased aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem: also my wisedome remained with me.

(Notes Reference) So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom (f) remained with me.

(f) For all this God did not take his gift of wisdom from me.

(Ecc 2:10) And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: and this was my portion of all my trauaile.

(Notes Reference) And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my (g) portion of all my labour.

(g) This was the fruit of all my labour, a certain pleasure mixed with care, which he calls vanity in the next verse.

(Ecc 2:11) Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.

(Ecc 2:12) And I turned to beholde wisedome, and madnes and follie: (for who is the man that will come after the King in things, which men nowe haue done?)

(Notes Reference) And I turned myself to behold (h) wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.

(h) I thought to myself whether it was better to follow wisdom, or my own affections and pleasures, which he calls madness.

(Ecc 2:13) Then I saw that there is profite in wisdome, more then in follie: as the light is more excellent then darkenes.

(Ecc 2:14) For the wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: yet I know also that the same condition falleth to them all.

(Notes Reference) The wise man's (i) eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one (k) event happeneth to them all.

(i) Meaning, in this world.

(k) For both die and are forgotten as in (Ecc 2:16) or they both alike have prosperity or adversity.

(Ecc 2:15) Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.

(Ecc 2:16) For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten. And howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole?

(Notes Reference) For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool (l) for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And (m) how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

(l) Meaning, in this world.

(m) He wonders that men forget a wise man, being dead, as soon as they do a fool.

(Ecc 2:17) Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

(Ecc 2:18) I hated also all my labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne, which I shall leaue to the man that shalbe after me.

(Ecc 2:19) And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.

(Ecc 2:20) Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne.

(Notes Reference) Therefore I went about to cause my heart (n) to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

(n) That I might seek the true happiness which is in God.

(Ecc 2:21) For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shall he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.

(Notes Reference) For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured in it shall he (o) leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

(o) Among other griefs that was not the least, to leave that which he had gotten by great travail, to one who had taken no pain therefore and whom he know not whether he were a wise man or a fool.

(Ecc 2:22) For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

(Ecc 2:23) For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.

(Ecc 2:24) There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, and delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.

(Notes Reference) [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should (p) make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.

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Passage 3: John 19

(Joh 19:1) Then Pilate tooke Iesus and scourged him.

(Notes Reference) Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and (1) scourged [him].

(1) The wisdom of the flesh chooses the least of two evils, but God curses that very wisdom.

(Joh 19:2) And the souldiers platted a crowne of thornes, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple garment,

(Joh 19:3) And saide, Haile, King of the Iewes. And they smote him with their roddes.

(Joh 19:4) Then Pilate went foorth againe, and said vnto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may knowe, that I finde no fault in him at all.

(Notes Reference) (2) Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

(2) Christ is again acquitted by the same mouth with which he was afterwards condemned.

(Joh 19:5) Then came Iesus foorth wearing a crowne of thornes, and a purple garment. And Pilate said vnto them, Beholde the man.

(Joh 19:6) Then when the hie Priests and officers sawe him, they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him. Pilate said vnto them, Take yee him and crucifie him: for I finde no fault in him.

(Notes Reference) When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, (a) Crucify [him], crucify [him]. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him]: for I find no fault in him.

(a) They will have him crucified whom, by an old custom of theirs, they should have stoned and hanged up as convicted of blasphemy: but they desire to have him crucified after the manner of the Romans.

(Joh 19:7) The Iewes answered him, We haue a lawe, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himselfe the Sonne of God.

(Joh 19:8) When Pilate then heard that woorde, he was the more afraide,

(Notes Reference) (3) When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

(3) Pilate's conscience fights for Christ, but it immediately yields, because it is not upheld with the singular power of God.

(Joh 19:9) And went againe into the common hall, and saide vnto Iesus, Whence art thou? But Iesus gaue him none answere.

(Joh 19:10) Then saide Pilate vnto him, Speakest thou not vnto me? Knowest thou not that I haue power to crucifie thee, and haue power to loose thee?

(Joh 19:11) Iesus answered, Thou couldest haue no power at all against me, except it were giuen thee from aboue: therefore he that deliuered me vnto thee, hath the greater sinne.

(Joh 19:12) From thence foorth Pilate sought to loose him, but the Iewes cried, saying, If thou deliuer him, thou art not Cesars friende: for whosoeuer maketh himselfe a King, speaketh against Cesar.

(Joh 19:13) When Pilate heard this woorde, hee brought Iesus foorth, and sate downe in the iudgement seate in a place called the Pauement, and in Hebrewe, Gabbatha.

(Notes Reference) (4) When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, (b) Gabbatha.

(4) Pilate condemns himself first, with the same mouth with which he afterwards condemns Christ.

(b) "Gabbatha" signifies a high place, as judgment seats are.

(Joh 19:14) And it was the Preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and hee sayde vnto the Iewes, Beholde your King.

(Joh 19:15) But they cried, Away with him, away with him, crucifie him. Pilate sayde vnto them, Shall I crucifie your King? The high Priestes answered, We haue no King but Cesar.

(Joh 19:16) Then deliuered he him vnto them, to be crucified. And they tooke Iesus, and led him away.

(Notes Reference) (5) Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led [him] away.

(5) Christ fastens Satan, sin, and death to the cross.

(Joh 19:17) And he bare his owne crosse, and came into a place named of dead mens Skulles, which is called in Hebrewe, Golgotha:

(Joh 19:18) Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Iesus in the middes.

(Joh 19:19) And Pilate wrote also a title, and put it on the crosse, and it was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWES.

(Notes Reference) (6) And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

(6) Christ, sitting upon the throne of the cross, is publicly proclaimed everlasting King of all people by the hand of him who condemned him for usurping a kingdom.

(Joh 19:20) This title then read many of the Iewes: for the place where Iesus was crucified, was neere to the citie: and it was written in Hebrewe, Greeke and Latine.

(Joh 19:21) Then saide the hie Priests of the Iewes to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Iewes, but that he sayd, I am King of the Iewes.

(Joh 19:22) Pilate answered, What I haue written, I haue written.

(Joh 19:23) Then the souldiers, when they had crucified Iesus, tooke his garments (and made foure partes, to euery souldier a part) and his coat: and the coat was without seame wouen from the toppe throughout.

(Notes Reference) (7) Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

(7) Christ signifies by the division of his garments amongst the bloody butchers (except for his coat which had no seam) that it will come to pass, that he will shortly divide his benefits, and enrich his very enemies throughout the world: but in such a way that the treasure of his Church will remain whole.

(Joh 19:24) Therefore they sayde one to another, Let vs not deuide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. This was that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which sayth, They parted my garments among them, and on my coate did cast lots. So the souldiers did these things in deede.

(Joh 19:25) Then stoode by the crosse of Iesus his mother, and his mothers sister, Marie the wife of Cleopas, and Marie Magdalene.

(Notes Reference) (8) Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

(8) Christ is a perfect example of all righteousness, not only in the keeping of the first, but also of the second table of the ten commandments.

(Joh 19:26) And when Iesus sawe his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loued, he said vnto his mother, Woman, beholde thy sonne.

(Joh 19:27) Then saide he to the disciple, Beholde thy mother: and from that houre, the disciple tooke her home vnto him.

(Joh 19:28) After, when Iesus knew that all things were performed, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said, I thirst.

(Notes Reference) (9) After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

(9) Christ when he has taken the vinegar, yields up the Spirit, indeed drinking up in our name that most bitter and severe cup of his Father's wrath.

(Joh 19:29) And there was set a vessell full of vineger: and they filled a spondge with vineger: and put it about an Hyssope stalke, and put it to his mouth.

(Notes Reference) Now there was set a (c) vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth.

(c) Galatinus witnesses out of the book called Sanhedrin that the Jews often gave those who were executed vinegar mixed with frankincense to drink, to make them somewhat delirious: so the Jews provided charitably for the poor men's conscience who were executed.

(Joh 19:30) Nowe when Iesus had receiued of the vineger, he saide, It is finished, and bowed his head, and gaue vp the ghost.

(Joh 19:31) The Iewes then (because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remaine vpon the crosse on the Sabbath day: for that Sabbath was an hie day) besought Pilate that their legges might be broken, and that they might be taken downe.

(Notes Reference) (10) The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.

(10) The body of Christ which was dead for a season (because it so pleased him) is wounded, but not the least bone of it is broken: and such is the state of his resurrection body.

(Joh 19:32) Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the first, and of the other, which was crucified with Iesus.

(Joh 19:33) But when they came to Iesus, and saw that he was dead alreadie, they brake not his legges.

(Joh 19:34) But one of the souldiers with a speare pearced his side, and foorthwith came there out blood and water.

(Notes Reference) (11) But one of the soldiers with a spear (d) pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

(11) Christ, being dead upon the cross, witnesses by a double sign that he alone is the true satisfaction, and the true washing for the believers.

(d) This wound was a most manifest witness of the death of Christ: for the water that issued out by this wound shows us plainly that the weapon pierced the very skin that encompasses the heart, and this skin is the vessel that contains the water; and once that is wounded, the creature which is so pierced and stricken has no choice but to die.

(Joh 19:35) And he that sawe it, bare recorde, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might beleeue it.

(Joh 19:36) For these things were done, that the Scripture shoulde be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shalbe broken.

(Joh 19:37) And againe an other Scripture saith, They shall see him whom they haue thrust through.

(Joh 19:38) And after these things, Ioseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of the Iewes) besought Pilate that he might take downe the bodie of Iesus. And Pilate gaue him licence. He came then and tooke Iesus body.

(Notes Reference) (12) And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

(12) Christ is openly buried, and in a famous place, Pilate permitting and allowing it, and buried by men who showed favour to Christ in doing this, men who had before that day never openly followed him: so that by his burial, no man can justly doubt either of his death, or resurrection.

(Joh 19:39) And there came also Nicodemus (which first came to Iesus by night) and brought of myrrhe and aloes mingled together about an hundreth pound.

(Joh 19:40) Then tooke they the body of Iesus, and wrapped it in linnen clothes with the odours, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie.

(Joh 19:41) And in that place where Iesus was crucified, was a garden, and in the garden a newe sepulchre, wherein was neuer man yet laid.

(Notes Reference) Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was (e) never man yet laid.

(e) That no man might frivolously object to his resurrection, as though someone else that had been buried there had risen; Theophylact.

(Joh 19:42) There then laide they Iesus, because of the Iewes Preparation day, for the sepulchre was neere.