SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:27
Entonces los soldados del gobernador llevaron a Jess al pretorio, y juntaron a l toda la cuadrilla;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:27
Verse 27. The common hall] Or, praetorium. Called so from the praetor, a principal magistrate among the Romans, whose business it was to administer justice in the absence of the consul. This place night be termed in English the court house, or common hall.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. Then the soldiers of the governor , etc.] Those that were about him, his attendants and guards, took Jesus into the common hall ; the praetorium, or judgment hall, as it is sometimes called; the governors palace, into which the Jews would not enter, lest they should defile themselves: Pilate therefore came out to them, and went into the pavement called Gabbatha, and sat upon a judgment seat there; (see John 18:28,29) ( John 19:13), where he passed sentence on Christ; which being done, the soldiers took him into the hall of judgment; which being both magnificent and large, was fit for the scene they intended to act there. Munsters Hebrew Gospel reads it, they took him in the house of judgment; and the Ethiopic version renders it, out of the court of judicature; both wrong. And gathered unto him whole band [of soldiers] ; the same that Judas had with him to take him, consisting of five hundred, and some say more: these their fellow soldiers, to whom Jesus was committed, got together to him, or against him, as the Syriac and Persic versions render it, make themselves sport and diversion with him. Think in what hands and company our dear Lord now was: now was he encompassed with dogs, and enclosed with the assembly of the wicked indeed; (see Psalm 22:16). The Persic version renders it, multitudes of knaves being gathered together to him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 26-30 - Crucifixion was a death used only among the Romans; it was very terrible and miserable. A cross was laid on the ground, to which the hands and feet were nailed, it was then lifted up and fixed upright, s that the weight of the body hung on the nails, till the sufferer die in agony. Christ thus answered the type of the brazen serpent raised of a pole. Christ underwent all the misery and shame here related, that he might purchase for us everlasting life, and joy, and glory.
Greek Textus Receptus
τοτε 5119 ADV οι 3588 T-NPM στρατιωται 4757 N-NPM του 3588 T-GSM ηγεμονος 2232 N-GSM παραλαβοντες 3880 5631 V-2AAP-NPM τον 3588 T-ASM ιησουν 2424 N-ASM εις 1519 PREP το 3588 T-ASN πραιτωριον 4232 N-ASN συνηγαγον 4863 5627 V-2AAI-3P επ 1909 PREP αυτον 846 P-ASM ολην 3650 A-ASF την 3588 T-ASF σπειραν 4686 N-ASF
Robertson's NT Word Studies
27:27 {Into the palace} (eis to praitwrion). In Rome the praetorium was the camp of the praetorian (from praetor) guard of soldiers (#Php 1:13), but in the provinces it was the palace in which the governor resided as in #Ac 23:35 in Caesarea. So here in Jerusalem Pilate ordered Jesus and all the band or cohort (holn tn speiran) of soldiers to be led into the palace in front of which the judgment-seat had been placed. The Latin _spira_ was anything rolled into a circle like a twisted ball of thread. These Latin words are natural here in the atmosphere of the court and the military environment. The soldiers were gathered together for the sport of seeing the scourging. These heathen soldiers would also enjoy showing their contempt for the Jews as well as for the condemned man.
