They said therefore among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which said,
They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they did cast lots.
These things therefore the soldiers did.
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Bede
AD 735
By the disciple whom Jesus loved, the Evangelist means himself; not that the others were not loved, but he was loved more intimately on account of his estate of chastity; for a Virgin our Lord called him, and a Virgin he ever remained.
Another reading is, Accepy eam disciplus in suam, his own mother some understand, but to his own care seems better.