John 19 Bible study: It is finished

Pilate says it three times. In chapter 18 he "went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.”" (18:38). In this chapter, "Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him" (19:1), and "Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”" (19:4) (tap basis for a charge). When the chief priests and the officers shouted for him to be crucified, "Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”" (19:6). Here is what almost everyone misses: the words come three times, and then John tells, "So then he delivered him to them to be crucified" (19:16) (tap delivered). Between 19:6 and 19:16, John tells what Pilate heard and did: "When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid" (19:8); "At this, Pilate was seeking to release him" (19:12); and "When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat" (19:13). John gives no more reason than these words, and these notes add none.

Zechariah 12:10→leads toJohn 19:37

Zechariah has, "They will look to me whom they have pierced" (Zechariah 12:10). At the cross, after one of the soldiers pierced Jesus's side (19:34), John says, "For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”" (19:36), and "Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”" (19:37). John names no prophet; he says only "another Scripture". The WEB words the two differently: on him in John, to me in Zechariah. These notes say nothing of who "they" are beyond the verses. The line sits on the Suffering Servant strand as the nearest of the map's six: both verses speak of one who was pierced, and neither says here why.

τελέωteleosay tel-EH-o

Strong's: "to end, i.e. complete, execute, conclude". The chapter has it twice, and both times the Greek has the same one word, tetelestai. First in John's own telling: "After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”" (19:28). Then in Jesus's words: "It is finished!" (19:30). John's Greek has the verb only in these two verses, counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates. The fulfilled of 19:28 is another verb, teleioo (G5048), and not the pleroo of 19:24 and 19:36. John doesn't say what was finished; these notes quote no lexicon's reading of 19:30 and add none of their own.