About the garments Christ wore?

Question

Why do you think the tunic Jesus wore, when he was crucified was so popular with the crowd? They cast lots to see who would get it after He had died.
John 19:23-24
23When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

24"Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot who will get it."
This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said,
"They divided my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothing."[a] So this is what the soldiers did.

-Do you know the meaning of this?

So the entire point was to fulfill prophecy- so amazing isn't it?
How the BIBLE comes together like a HUGE puzzle! How it proves true! They did exactly what was prophesied in the O.T

Answer 1

I believe Isaiah prophesied about this garment when he said it would be gambled for.

So this....in and of itself.....was a fulfilled prophecy.

Answer 2

Our Lord was now in the grand office of high priest, and was about to offer the expiatory victim for the sin of the world. And it is worthy of remark that the very dress he was in was similar to that of the Jewish high priest. The following is the description given of his dress by Josephus, Ant. b. iii. c. 7, s. 4: “Now this coat (χιτων) was not composed of two pieces, nor was it sewed together upon the shoulders and sides, but it was one long vestment, so woven as to have an opening for the neck; not an oblique one, but parted all along the back and breast; it was also parted where the hands were to come out.” A little before, the same author says, that “the high priest had a long robe of a blue color, which hung down to the feet, and was put over all the rest.” It is likely that this was the same with that upper garment which the soldiers divided among them, it being probably of a costly stuff. I may just add here, that I knew a woman who knit all kinds of clothes, even to the sleeves and button holes, without a seam; and have seen some of the garments which she made; that the thing is possible I have the fullest proof.

Answer 3

A seamless garment is not the easiest thing to make. In knitting, one uses a hoop-shaped needle set. In weaving, one must use a hoop-shaped loom.

If you've ever seen anybody weave on a flat loom, sending the shuttle with thread zipping through the warp threads, you can imagine how much more time consuming it is to weave on a hoop-shaped loom rather than a flat one.

The advantage to a garment woven in one piece is that there are no seams. In our modern-day times, we have trouble imagining why there is an issue with seams, because we are accustomed to garments stitched with flat seams. Flat seams do not roll, so they do not chafe and irritate the skin. In Jesus' time, fabrics were not as smooth and seams were considerably thicker and rougher.

Between the seamless comfort of Jesus' garment and the time-consuming process and special loom required to make it, it was a very valuable garment, and that's why the soldiers didn't want to tear it and cast lots for it.

All this fulfills the prophesy cited in your question, and that makes it proof that Jesus is the Messiah.

Answer 4

Isn't the idea perhaps that the tunic was of high quality so it had far more value being kept in one piece vs being divided into pieces?

In the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge's clothing/draperies, etc. are fought over by citizens (soldiers so to speak).

As I recall, John's words may be borrowed from the Old Testament (from the Psalms of King David).

Jesus Christ is said to be described first (symbolically) in the Old Testament of the Bible (but not using the words Jesus Christ in the Old Testament). The literary group which wrote the New Testament tends to say that the Old Testament was always talking about Jesus Christ (Savior) without the Old Testament ever using those two words Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

The seamless garment speaks of Messiah's priestly office and thus also symbolizes God's righteousness. This idiom of coat as God's righteousness is consistent throughout the Bible. God prophetically clothed Adam and Eve after they sinned. Later on Joseph, who is a type of the Messiah in the OT is given a coat of many colors (or a seamless coat, this is disputed). Later on Jesus in the parable of the prodigal son also mentions the father covering the son with a coat which speaks of imparting to him His righteousness.

Like with so many events of that day, this casting lots for Jesus' clothing too was fulfilled without participants' awareness of what they were doing. Yet, for us, looking back, these details speak of the character of our God, Who is all knowing, all powerful, a truly sovereign ruler, Who delights in keeping His promises, and of the reliability of the Bible as His word.

Blessings,

Jack

Answer 6

Yes! So many prophecies and all of them fulfilled! It's amazing how so many of the Jews refused to take note of their fulfillment! And yet people do the same today!

Jesus was wearing some really nice clothes! That's why the Roman soldiers cast lots for the tunic! (As believers we don't have to dress poorly!)

Answer 7

Psalm 22:18 (King James Version)
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18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

The soldiers wanted the garment that Jesus wore because God planned it to happen. That way, he was able to "predict" the outcome. That is the essence of fulfilled prophesy!

Park

Answer 8

First, I think that it was a vest or coat that they cast lots for. In those days it took a long time to make cloth and to turn cloth into any type of garment so I think that made it valuable and of course a coat or vest would be more valuable than just a piece of cloth.

Answer 9

The common Roman soldiers were very poor. Many took jobs such as collecting debts or guarding shipments etc.
Some were thieves. Some would extort money from people.
Most would take bribes.

It was second nature to take whatever they could find of value.

Answer 10

There's your answer: "This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom." It was a nice garment, and rare - because it was complete, seamless...a metaphor for Christ Himself.

Also - it was in fulfillment of OT prophecy:

The scriptures give us a prophecy of what Jesus was going to have to go through in:

"They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture " (Psalms 22:13-18)

Answer 11

All the things done to him were to mock him and make fun of him, his garment was purple as a king would wear to gamble on it was to dishonor him.