The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 421

G(,sp.-1 does reoognize this parallel, whic,h tion. (2) The genuine humanity of our is in a very rem1uke.ble way thus quietly Lord. (3) The more than humanity of his reaffirmed. This passe.ge acquires meaning mo.nner of death. (4) The faot of hie death from the supposition thai the Jews were Rnd thereforo the ree.lity of the Resurrection' hurrying e.we.y to ee.t their PuohRI le.mb, (4) The symbolic and twofold aspect of hi~ not e. bone of which could be lega.lly broken. redemptive e.ot. (6) The fulfilment of The _opponente of_ the authenticity think prophetio word. (7) The est&bliahment of the.t in01dente are invent.ed to eeta.blish the the connection between the Po.ssover ea.orifice supposed relRtionship. ThOlle who seek to and the Lamb of God who taketh away the reply to them by eiq>le.ining Rway thie sin of the world. relerenoe to tlie Pa.esover think the.t Ps. Vere. 38-42.--(7) The burial-tha two miv. 20 is referred to, " He keepeth e.11 fnend8, Jo~ph and Nioodemiu. hill bones : not one of them is broken ; " but Ver. 38.-A.fter theae thinga-i.e. after oll the forc.e of tha.t pa,sse.ge in this connootion these tranB11.0tions and impressions, Rfter the would violently cla.eh with any euoh adap- mvri[ragium and the piercing o.nd the pro- tation of it a.e could mRke it refer to the ceedings of tho soldiers with Pilo.te's per- cruol and violent dea.th of the Lord. mission ; after, that is, time was left to see Ver. 37.-And agaiJl another Soripture the fnll issue of the provious aot, and ihe Mith. The eeoond of the Old Testament awful fact we.s po.tent to all-Joseph, who is quotations is in several ways important from Arimathma. This "Joseph" is intro- and noteworthy. They ahall look on him duced with the article ( 6 1), and e. second 6 whom they pieroed (•ls 811 ll<ll'<ll'n/D'a,,). ~fore bli, implying'.'.to the rea.der that he The original passage is (Zech. xii. 10), ICl':/2,".1) 18 now, by reason of the· synoptic narrative, 1,P.l ,:ti-:;-n~. •~~ " They she.11 look upon a well-known person. This Arimathreo. is tM whom they pierced." The evangelist probably the Ramathaim of 1 Sam. i. 1, altered the HE into BDI, which, ns it stands the birthplace of Samuel, known now e.s the in the old oracle, and rega.rded as the Nebi Bamwil, a.bout two leagues north-west language of J ehove.h, is sufficiently BUr• of Jerusalem (Caspari, § 49). Hengsten- prising. The LXX. had felt the difficulty, berg thinks the site is Ramleh, eight hours and translated it 'Er,fJ>..'1/,o.,.,.llJ ,rpos µ.• l,.,,8' from Jerusalem. The maps of the Po.lest. :,., ,c,rrr,ipxfia-avro, i.e. " They sheJ.l look Explor. Fnnd place it about e. lee.gue to the towards me, because they have insulted me." east of Bethlehem. He we.s a " rich man " Their repentance e.nd misgiving she.11 be (Matt. xxvil. 57)-a fa.et which the First aro11Bed, bece.usc in response for those things Gospel recalls without quoting the remark- which they ha.ve done contemptuously able oracle of Isa. lili. 9, that Messiah, B,,"Ilinet me. It is interesting to see that Servant of Jehovah, we.s with the "rioh in John is mnre accurate in hie Greek tmnsla- hie death." We may judge that Joseph tion of this prophetic paasage, viz. 11,j,ovrru had a :r'eBidence in Jeruse.lem, even though ds tw, " They shall look " with love and he may still be known e.s belonging to and grace e.nd repenta.nae "on him whom ••from" Arimathrea, because he had pre- C<E•KErf"rlD'"") they pierced." This Greek pared, hard by the metropolis, a sepulchre rendering of the Heb1·ew is followed by which as yet had never been used. He Aquila., Theodotion., and Symmachus, and wu, moreover, a /jouAEIJ'l'f/f (Luke xxiii 50; is quoted by Jnstin Martyr; it is e.lso Mark xv. 43), a member of the Sanhedrin, fonnd in Bev. i. 7, fonniDg a link of of high eharacter, "good and just," "wait- connection between the Gospel e.nd the ing for, expecting the kingdom of God " Apoce.lypse. Moreover, it is most impressive (say Mark and Luke)," and by no means to find that the awfol trogedy does not close conaentient to the counsel and deed of his even in the ho.nds of this writer without e. colleagues" (adds Luke). The whole posi- word of promise and hope. Zech. xii. S-14 tion is hrieOy put by John : Being a disoipla is clearly in the mind of the apostle. The of .TeS1ll!, but a hidden one (,c<1<puµ.,.,vas), mercifol Lord we.its for the repentance of who had been concealed as such up to this Israel, of those who, by instigating Boman crowning climax of his Lord's humiliation, power for his destruction, pierced him by not daring to confess Christ, by reason of his their trenchant ingratitude BB well e.s by the fea.r of the .Tews. Strange that he and Nico- Boman spear. It will be fulfilled. more demus should have co.et away their fears at completely when every eye shall see him, such a moment I .Toaeph asked of Pilate and the full revelation of his majesty shall (1Jprl,-r11t1•11); a word that implies something smite the whole world with penitence or of claim and confidence on his part. The ey- daspair. TbiB remarkable event and its noptiste all three use rf,,.11t1a-ro, which mther iBsne, what.ever may have been the precise denotes the position· of a suppliant for o. physiologice.l fact, establishes: (1) The e.u- 1 Westcott and Hort omit the two articles, toptic 1.e;,timony of one who soarcely expected ~ bt: crtdited with the resnlt of hie observa- and Ti.schendorf (8th edit.) the first. on, nx. 1-42,J THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN. 435