John Chapter 19 verse 27 Holy Bible
Then saith he to the disciple, Behold, thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her unto his own `home'.
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Then he said to the disciple, There is your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his house.
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Then he says unto the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
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Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
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Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
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afterward he saith to the disciple, `Lo, thy mother;' and from that hour the disciple took her to his own `home'.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - (b) Filial love - "Behold thy mother!" and the issue. Then he saith to the disciple, Behold thy mother! The very garments that covered him had been rudely divided among the soldiers. He is therefore as a dead man, and yet he made the most royal gifts and precious assignments of that which was nevertheless inalienable. He gave a mother to his dearest friend. He gave a son most precious to the bereaved and desolate and broken heart of his widowed mother. Inconceivable that Weisse should call this "the basest self-adulation." The animus manifested to this document by a certain school partakes of the animosity of political partisanship. From that hour, says the evangelist, the disciple took her (εἰς τὰ ἴδια) to his own home. This may have been some temporary lodging in Jerusalem, but it is more probable, as we have seen, that Salome and John had homes both in Jerusalem (see Introduction, p. 56.) and Capernaum. The mere phrase is used in John 16:32 in a more general sense of all the apostles. It is not necessary to believe that John at once removed the sacred deposit and bequest of his dying Lord to that home, though it is just possible. Bengel and many others think so, but it is not necessary to limit the meaning of "hour" to moment. The departure could hardly have taken place till all was over. In this brief reference a key is given to what John became to the Church. We must think of Salerno and John ever by the holy mother of the Lord, whether at Jerusalem, Capernaum, or Ephesus. The few words speak volumes, and his reticence here, as elsewhere, gives an unutterable grandeur to his words.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) Behold thy mother!--The solemn committal is a double one. The loving heart of the disciple should find, as well as give, sympathy and support in the love of the mother. The sympathy in their common loss is to be the source of love for each other.And from that hour.--The words do not necessarily mean, but they certainly may mean, that St. John at once took Mary away from the scene that a mother's heart could hardly bear; but he is himself present (John 19:35), and the whole account, brief as it is, is that of an eye-witness.Unto his own home.--Comp. Note on John 1:11, and Introduction, pp. 369, 371. The word is used in John 16:32 of the lodging or sojourning place of the Apostles. The meaning here is that whatever was his home became hers.
