Pretorium

How Nave’s arranged it

• Also called PRAETORIUM, COMMON HALL, JUDGMENT HALL, and PALACEMatthew 27:27Mark 15:16John 18:28John 18:33John 19:9Acts 23:35Philippians 1:13

The passages, in Bible order (7)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Matthew 27:27

   Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 27:272 voices

   “He had been styled King of the Jews, and the Scribes and Priests had brought this charge against Him, that He claimed sovereignty over the Jewish nation; hence this mockery of the soldiers, taking away His own garments, they put on Him a scarlet cloak to represent that purple fringe which kings of old used to wear, for the diadem they put on Him a crown of thorns, and for the regal sceptre give Him a reed, and perform adoration to Him as to a king. All these things we may understand mystically.

   “See also Mar 15:15-20; Joh 19:1-3. Mat 27:27 Into the common hall - The original word here means, rather, the governor’s palace or dwelling. The trial of Jesus had taken place outside of the palace. The Jews would not enter in Joh 18:28, and it is probable that courts were held often in a larger and more public place than would be a room in his dwelling. Jesus, being condemned, was led by the soldiers away from the Jews “within” the palace, and subjected there to their profane mockery and sport.

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2. Mark 15:16

   Then the soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called the whole company together.

   ›Commentary on Mark 15:161 voice

   “Called Praetorium - The hall of the “praetor,” or Roman governor, where he sat to administer justice. Whole band - See the notes at Mat 27:27.

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3. John 18:28

   Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

   ›Commentary on John 18:282 voices

   “They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the palace: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover. Judge righteous judgment, and Thou shalt not slay the innocent and just man, were the express injunctions of the Law and the Word of God.

   “The hall of judgment - Εις το πραιτωριον, To the praetorium. This was the house where Pilate lodged; hence called in our margin, Pilate’s house. The praetorium is so called from being the dwelling-place of the praetor, or chief of the province. It was also the place where he held his court, and tried causes. St. John has omitted all that passed in the house of Caiaphas - the accusations brought against Christ - the false witnesses - the insults which he received in the house of the high priest - and the assembling of the grand council, or Sanhedrin.

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4. John 18:33

   Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

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5. John 19:9

   and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.

   ›Commentary on John 19:92 voices

   “Since he willed to suffer on behalf of the world, he is silent when examined and beaten by Pilate. For if he had spoken, he would not have been crucified from weakness, since there is no weakness in the words that the Word speaks.

   “Whence art thou? - See the notes at Joh 7:27. Pilate knew that he was a Galilean, but this question was asked to ascertain whether he claimed to be the Son of God - whether a mere man, or whether divine. Jesus gave him no answer - Probably for the following reasons: 1. Jesus had already told Pilate Jesus’ design, and the nature of his kingdom, Joh 18:36-37. 2. Jesus had said enough to satisfy Pilate of Jesus’ innocence. Of that Pilate was convinced.

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6. Acts 23:35

   he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.

   ›Commentary on Acts 23:352 voices

   “I will hear thee, said he,.... The Arabic and Ethiopic versions read, "we will hear", which is a grand courtly way of speaking: when thine accusers are come; which Lysias, in his letter, informed him that he had ordered them to come; which shows the governor to have some sense of justice and integrity, being desirous to hear both sides before he judged of the affair, though there was so much said in the chief captain's letter in favour of Paul's innocence, and against his enemies.

   “In Herod’s judgment hall - Greek: in the praetorium of Herod. The word used here denoted formerly “the tent of the Roman praetor”; and since that was the place where justice was administered, it came to be applied to “halls (courts) of justice.” This had been raised probably by Herod the Great as his palace, or as a place for administering justice. It is probable, also, that prisons, or places of security, would be attached to such places.

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7. Philippians 1:13

   As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

   ›Commentary on Philippians 1:131 voice

   “So that my bonds in Christ - Margin, “for.” The meaning is, his bonds in the cause of Christ. He was imprisoned because he preached Christ (see the notes, Eph 6:20), and was really suffering because of his attachment to the Redeemer. It was not for crime, but for being a Christian for had he not been a Christian, he would have escaped all this. The manner of Paul’s imprisonment was, that he was permitted to occupy a house by himself, though chained to a soldier who was his guard; Act 28:

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