
Text -- Psalms 22:18 (NET)




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Wesley -> Psa 22:18
JFB -> Psa 22:18
JFB: Psa 22:18 - -- This literally fulfilled prediction closes the sad picture of the exposed and deserted sufferer.
This literally fulfilled prediction closes the sad picture of the exposed and deserted sufferer.
Clarke -> Psa 22:18
Clarke: Psa 22:18 - -- They part my garments - This could be true in no sense of David. The fact took place at the crucifixion of our Lord. The soldiers divided his upper ...
They part my garments - This could be true in no sense of David. The fact took place at the crucifixion of our Lord. The soldiers divided his upper garment into four parts, each soldier taking a part; but his tunic or inward vestment being without seam, woven in one entire piece, they agreed not to divide, but to cast lots whose the whole should be. Of this scripture the Roman soldiers knew nothing; but they fulfilled it to the letter. This was foreseen by the Spirit of God; and this is a direct revelation concerning Jesus Christ, which impresses the whole account with the broad seal of eternal truth.
Calvin -> Psa 22:18
Calvin: Psa 22:18 - -- What follows in the next verse concerning his garments is metaphorical. It is as if he had said, that all his goods were become a prey to his enemies...
What follows in the next verse concerning his garments is metaphorical. It is as if he had said, that all his goods were become a prey to his enemies, even as conquerors are accustomed to plunder the vanquished, or to divide the spoil among themselves, by casting lots to determine the share which belongs to each. Comparing his ornaments, riches, and all that he possessed, to his garments, he complains that, after he had been despoiled of them, his enemies divided them among themselves, as so much booty, accompanied with mockery of him; and by this mockery the villany of their conduct was aggravated, inasmuch as they triumphed over him, as if he had been a dead man. The Evangelists quote this place to the letter, as we say, and without figure; and there is no absurdity in their doing so. To teach us the more certainly that in this psalm Christ is described to us by the Spirit of prophecy, the heavenly Father intended that in the person of his Son those things should be visibly accomplished which were shadowed forth in David. Matthew, (Mat 8:16,) in narrating that the paralytic, the blind, and the lame, were healed of their diseases, says, that this was done “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bear our sicknesses;” although the prophet, in that place, sets before us the Son of God in the character of a spiritual physician. We are extremely slow and backward to believe; and it is not wonderful, that, on account of our dullness of apprehension, a demonstration of the character of Christ, palpable to our senses, has been given us, 516 which might have the effect of arousing the sluggishness of our understandings.
Defender -> Psa 22:18
Defender: Psa 22:18 - -- The unusual action of gambling for His vesture is one of the very few events recorded in all four gospels (Mat 27:35; Mar 15:24; Luk 23:34; Joh 19:24)...
TSK -> Psa 22:18

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Barnes -> Psa 22:18
Barnes: Psa 22:18 - -- They part my garments among them - They divide; they apportion. This refers merely to the fact that they made such a division or distribution o...
They part my garments among them - They divide; they apportion. This refers merely to the fact that they made such a division or distribution of his garments; the manner in which it was done, is specified in the other part of the verse. The word "garments"is a general term, and would be applicable to any part of the raiment.
And cast lots upon my vesture - That is, upon the part here represented by the word "vesture,""they cast lots."There was a general division of his garments by agreement, or in some other mode not involving the use of the lot; on some particular portion, here indicated by the word vesture, the lot was cast to determine whose it should be. The word thus rendered vesture -
As a matter of fact this was literally fulfilled in the crucifixion of the Saviour. By remarkable circumstances which no human sagacity could have foreseen or anticipated, there occurred a general division of a portion of his raiment, without an appeal to the lot, among the soldiers who were engaged in crucifying him, and a specific disposal of one article of his raiment by the lot, Mat 27:35; Luk 23:34; Joh 19:23-24. It never occurred in the life of David, as far as we know, or have reason to believe, that his enemies stripped him, and divided his garments among themselves; and the description here, therefore, could be applicable only to some one else. It was completely fulfilled in the Saviour; and this verse, therefore, furnishes the fullest proof that the psalm refers to him. At the same time it should be observed that these circumstances are such that an impostor could not have secured the correspondence of the events with the prediction. The events referred to were not under the control of him whose garments were thus divided. They depended wholly on others; and by no art or plan could an impostor have so arranged matters that all these things should have appeared to be fulfilled in himself.
Poole -> Psa 22:18
Poole: Psa 22:18 - -- This also cannot be applied to David without an uncouth and strained metaphor, but was literally fulfilled in Christ, Mat 27:35 Joh 19:24 .
Gill -> Psa 22:18
Gill: Psa 22:18 - -- They part my garments among them,.... Such as died the death of the cross were crucified naked h, and their clothes were the perquisites of the execut...
They part my garments among them,.... Such as died the death of the cross were crucified naked h, and their clothes were the perquisites of the executioners; there were four soldiers concerned in the crucifixion of Christ, and these parted his garments into four parts, and everyone took his part;
and cast lots on my vesture; which was a seamless coat, wove from the top to the bottom; and therefore, not willing to rend it, they cast lots upon it who should have it; all this was exactly fulfilled in Christ, Joh 19:23.

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 22:1-31
TSK Synopsis: Psa 22:1-31 - --1 David complains in great discouragement.9 He prays in great distress.23 He praises God.
MHCC -> Psa 22:11-21
MHCC: Psa 22:11-21 - --In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 22:11-21
Matthew Henry: Psa 22:11-21 - -- In these verses we have Christ suffering and Christ praying, by which we are directed to look for crosses and to look up to God under them. I. Here ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 22:16-18
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 22:16-18 - --
(Heb.: 22:17-19) A continuation, referring back to Psa 22:12, of the complaint of him who is dying and is already as it were dead. In the animal na...
Constable -> Psa 22:1-31; Psa 22:18-20
Constable: Psa 22:1-31 - --Psalm 22
The mood of this psalm contrasts dramatically with that of Psalm 21. In this one David felt for...

Constable: Psa 22:18-20 - --3. Prayer for freedom from death 22:19-21
The psalmist pleaded with God to rescue his life from ...

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Evidence -> Psa 22:12-18; Psa 22:18
Evidence: Psa 22:12-18 Messianic prophecy : This was clearly fulfilled in the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. See Joh 19:28 ; Joh 19:37 ; Luk 23:35 ; and Mat 27:35 . ...
