Psalm 22:16

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Summary

Psalm 22:16

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Dogs

Revelation 22:15

Compassed

Luke 11:53

Assembly

They pierced

General references

Psalm 118:11

John 19:18

Bible References

Dogs

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?

Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.

“Do not give that which is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, for they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Look out for the dogs [the Judaizers, the legalists], look out for the troublemakers, look out for the false circumcision [those who claim circumcision is necessary for salvation];

Outside are the dogs [the godless, the impure, those of low moral character] and the sorcerers [with their intoxicating drugs, and magic arts], and the immoral persons [the perverted, the molesters, and the adulterers], and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying (deception, cheating).

Compassed

When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile [toward Him] and to interrogate Him on many subjects,

Assembly

O God, arrogant and insolent men have risen up against me;
A band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.

“For even your [tribal] brothers and the household of your father,
Even they have dealt treacherously (unfaithfully) with you;
Indeed they are [like a pack of hounds] howling after you.
Do not believe them, although they may say kind words and promise you good things.”

Those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) had gathered [illegally] together.

The soldiers led Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the entire [Roman] battalion [of 600 soldiers].

Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking and ridiculing Him [and treating Him with contempt] and beating Him.

Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this Man.”

They pierced

“I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace (unmerited favor) and supplication. And they will look at Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him as one who weeps bitterly over a firstborn.

And when they had crucified Him, they divided His clothes among them by casting lots.

And they crucified Him, and divided up His clothes among themselves, casting lots for them to see who should take what.

When they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer clothes and made four parts, a part for each soldier, and also the tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven [in one piece] from the top throughout.

So the other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the marks of the nails, and put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe.”

General references

They encompassed me, yes, they surrounded me [on every side];
In the name of the Lord I will cut them off.

There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.