{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/106/1060191.htm","path":"chr/ecf/106/1060191.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/106/1060191.htm","text":"Chapter XII.\u2014Of the Concord Preserved Among All the Four Evangelists on the Subject of the Parting of His Raiment.\n39. Matthew goes on thus: \u201cAnd after they crucified Him, they parted His garments, casting lots: and sitting down, they watched Him.\u201d 1381 Mark reports the same incident, as follows: \u201cAnd crucifying Him, they parted His garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.\u201d 1382 In like manner Luke says: \u201cAnd they parted His raiment, and cast lots. And the people stood beholding.\u201d 1383 The occurrence is thus recorded briefly by the first three. But John gives us a more detailed narrative of the method in which the act was gone about. His version runs thus: \u201cThen the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my garments, and for my vesture they did cast lots.\u201d 1384\nMatt. 27:35, 36. The words, \u201cthat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots,\u201d are omitted. [So the Greek text, according to the best authorities. Comp. Revised Version.\u2014R.]\n197:1382 197:1383\nLuke 23:34, 35.\n197:1384\nJohn 19:23, 24.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI: The Harmony of t...","type":"page"}