Juan 19:5

5 Cuando salió Jesús, llevaba puestos la corona de espinas y el manto de color púrpura.—¡Aquí tienen al hombre! —les dijo Pilato.

Juan 19:5 Meaning and Commentary

John 19:5

Then came Jesus forth
Out of the judgment hall, or place where he had been scourged, as soon as Pilate had said these words:

wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe;
with his temples scratched and torn with the thorny crown, and the blood running down from thence, and his face and eyes swollen with the blows he had received from their closed fists, and all besmeared with his own blood, and the soldiers' spittle; his body appearing to be almost of the same colour with the purple or scarlet robe, through the stripes and lashes he had received, when that was thrown back.

And Pilate saith unto them, behold the man;
not their king, that would have provoked them; though he did say so afterwards, when he found he could not prevail upon them to agree to his release; but the man, to move their compassion; signifying, that he was a man as they were, and that they ought to use him as such, and treat him with humanity and pity; and that he was a poor despicable man, as the condition he was in showed; and that it was a weak thing in them to fear anything with respect to any change of, or influence in, civil government from one that made such a figure; and therefore should be satisfied with what had been done to him, and dismiss him.

Juan 19:5 In-Context

3 —¡Viva el rey de los judíos! —le gritaban, mientras se le acercaban para abofetearlo.

4 Pilato volvió a salir.—Aquí lo tienen —dijo a los judíos—. Lo he sacado para que sepan que no lo encuentro culpable de nada.

5 Cuando salió Jesús, llevaba puestos la corona de espinas y el manto de color púrpura.—¡Aquí tienen al hombre! —les dijo Pilato.

6 Tan pronto como lo vieron, los jefes de los sacerdotes y los guardias gritaron a voz en cuello:—¡Crucifícalo! ¡Crucifícalo!—Pues llévenselo y crucifíquenlo ustedes —replicó Pilato—. Por mi parte, no lo encuentro culpable de nada.

7 —Nosotros tenemos una ley, y según esa ley debe morir, porque se ha hecho pasar por Hijo de Dios —insistieron los judíos.