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27. ΤΟΤΕ οἱ στρατιῶται τοῦ ἡγεμόνος, παραλαβόντες τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν
eis τὸ “ πραιτώριον, συνήγαγον ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν ὅλην τὴν σπεῖραν: 28. καὶο Mk. αν.
ἐκδύσαντες 1 αὐτόν, περιέθηκαν αὐτῷ χλαμύδα κοκκίνην2: 29. καὶ πλέξαντες στέφανον ἐξ ἀκανθῶν, ἐπέθηκαν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὃ αὐτοῦ, καὶ κάλαμον ἐπὶ τὴν δεξιὰν ΄ αὐτοῦ: καὶ γονυπετήσαντες ἔμπροσθεν
αὐτοῦ, ἐνέπαιζον 5 αὐτῷ, λέγοντες,
16. John xviii, οἳ- 33; XIX. 9. Acts xxiii. 45. Phil. 1, τη,
“Xatpe, 6 βασιλεὺς ὃὅ τῶν
3 Ιουδαίων '”' 30. καὶ ἐμπτύσαντες eis αὐτόν, ἔλαβον τὸν κάλαµον,
‘ - καὶ ἔτυπτον eis τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ.
31. Καὶ ὅτε ἐνέπαιξαν αὐτῷ,
ἐξέδυσαν αὐτὸν τὴν χλαμύδα, καὶ ἐνέδυσαν αὐτὸν τὰ ἵμάτια αὐτοῦ -
‘ , ολ 3 x a και ἀπήγαγον αυτον εἰς το σταυρώσαι.
32. ᾿Ἐξερχόμενοι δὲ εὗρον
1 BD and some old Latin codd. have ενδυσαντες, which Weiss thinks has been
changed into ex. from not being understood.
Vide below.
® Χλαμυδα κοκκινην Ῥείοτεπεριεθηκαν in BDL 69 al. (Tisch., W.H.).
ὅ επι της κεφαλης in NBL 69. * ev τη δεξια in NABDLE 1, 33, 69 al. ° ενεπαιζαν in $BDL 33.
6 BDA have βασιλευ (W.H. in brackets, ο Bao. in margin).
guard, the Praetorian guard itself.— συνήγαγον, etc.: gathered about Him (for sport) the whole σπεῖραν, at most a cohort of 600, more probably a maniple of 200. (“ σπεῖρα, anything twisted vound like a ball of thread, is a transla- tion of ‘manipulus’; a wisp of hay.” Carr in Cam. N. T., ad loc.) A large number to assemble for such a purpose, but Roman soldiers at passover time would always be on the alert for serious work or sport, and here was no ordinary chance of both, a man sentenced to be crucified who passed for King of the Jews. What more natural than to make sport of Him, and through Him to show their contempt for the Jewish people? (Holtzmann, H.C.).—Ver. 28. ἐκδύσ- αντες (or ἐνδ.) a.: taking off (or putting on) His clothes. If we adopt the former reading, the implied situation will be this: Jesus first stripped for scourging, then reclothed; then stripped again at the commencement of the mocking pro- cess. If the latter, this: Jesus after scourging led naked to the praetorium, there clothed, all but His upper gar- ment, instead of which they put on χλαμύδα κ. (Meyer).— yAap. κοκκίνην, a scarlet cloak, probably a soldiex’s sagum. Carr renders asoldier’s scarf, and suggests that it may have been a worn-out scarf of Pilate’s (Herod’s, Elsner). The ridi- cule would be more lifelike if it was really a fine article that might be, or had been, worn by a Ροϊεπίαϊο.-- πλέξαντες στ. ἐξ ἀ., weaving out of thorns a crown ;
not, say Meyer and Weiss, hard and sharp, so as to cause great pain, but young, flexible, easily plaited, the aim being to ridicule not to inflict torture. Possibly, but the soldiers would not make a point of avoiding giving pain. They would take what came first to Ἠαπά.- -κάλαµον, a reed; apparently under the gov. of ἐπέθηκαν, but really the object of ἔθηκαν, understood.—yovv- πετήσαντες: after the investiture comes the homage, by lowly gesture and wor- shipful salutation: χαῖρε βασιλεῦ τ. Ἰ. Hail, King of the Jews. A mockery of the nation in intention quite as much as of the particular victim. Loesner (Ob- serv, ad N. T.) adduces from Philo. (in Flaccum, 6) a historic parallel, in which the youth of Alexandria treat similarly a half-witted person, Karabas, the real design being to insult Herod Agrippa. Schanz and Holtzmann also refer to this incident.—Ver. 30. At this point rough sport turns into brutal treatment, as the moment for execution of the sentence approaches.—_éprrTveavtes: spitting, sub- stituted for kissing, the final act of homage, followed by striking with the mock sceptre (ἔτυπτον ε. τ. «.).—Ver. 31. ἐξέδυσαν, etc.: they took off the mock royal robe, and put on again His own garments (τὰ ἵἱμάτια, the upper garments, but why the plural 2). No mention of the crown; left on according to some of the ancients, Origen, e.g.: ‘*semel imposita et nunquam ἀείταοία and, according to the same Father, con-