John 19 Footnotes
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19:24,36 This is another passage that is typological in the OT (Ps 22:18). Ps 22 contains numerous details strikingly paralleled in Jesus’s life, even though it was originally describing the afflictions of the psalmist. To the believing Jew, this was no coincidence but a sign of God’s hand at work.
19:25-27 Why would Jesus entrust his mother to “the disciple he loved”—the apostle John—rather than to her husband, Joseph, or to one of Jesus’s half brothers? Presumably because Joseph had died by this time and Jesus’s brothers had not yet become his followers. It is possible that John was Jesus’s cousin, so they had a biological as well as spiritual relationship. In John’s account, Mary and her sister are named as witnesses at the crucifixion. John didn’t name Mary’s sister, but Mark says that Salome was among the women present. Salome was the mother of Zebedee’s sons, James and John (Mk 15:40).