John 21
WesleyJohn 21:1
Answerest thou the high priest so? - With so little reverence?
John 21:3
Now Annas had sent him to Caiaphas - As is implied John 18:13. Bound - Being still bound, John 18:12.
John 21:7
They went not into the palace themselves, lest they should be defiled - By going into a house which was not purged from leaven, Deuteronomy 16:4. Matthew 27:2; Mr 15:1; Lu 23:1.
John 21:10
It is not lawful for us to put any man to death - The power of inflicting capital punishment had been taken from them that very year. So the sceptre was departed from Judah, and transferred to the Romans.
John 21:11
Signifying what death he should die - For crucifixion was not a Jewish, but a Roman punishment. So that had he not been condemned by the Roman governor, he could not have been crucified. John 3:14.
John 21:15
My kingdom is not of this world - Is not an external, but a spiritual kingdom; that I might not be delivered to the Jews - Which Pilate had already attempted to do, John 18:31, and afterward actually did, John 19:16.
John 21:16
Thou sayest - The truth. To this end was I born - Speaking of his human origin: his Divine was above Pilate’s comprehension. Yet it is intimated in the following words, I came into the world, that I might witness to the truth - Which was both declared to the Jews, and in the process of his passion to the princes of the Gentiles also. Every one that is of the truth - That is, a lover of it, heareth my voice - A universal maxim. Every sincere lover of truth will hear him, so as to understand and practise what he saith.
John 21:17
What is truth? - Said Pilate, a courtier; perhaps meaning what signifies truth? Is that a thing worth hazarding your life for? So he left him presently, to plead with the Jews for him, looking upon him as an innocent but weak man.