and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
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and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
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and sayde: yf thou be that kynge of the Iewes save thy silfe.
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And said, If thou be the King of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 37 And saying, If thou be the king of…
37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
Ver. 37. See Mat 27:42.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And we indeed justly,.... For sins committed against the…
And we indeed justly,.... For sins committed against the law; our sentence is just, we are righteously punished: which shows that he had a true sense of sin; for where that is, there will be not only an acknowledgment of the offence, but a vindication of the justice of God, should he proceed to deal according to the demerit of sin: for we receive the due reward of our deeds; though, according to the law of Moses, theft was not punishable with death, but with a restoration, either double, or fourfold, or fivefold, according to the nature of it; see Exo 22:1. It may be these men had committed murder along with the robbery:
but this man hath done nothing amiss; or absurd, unreasonable, wicked, and detestable: he did no injury to God, or man; wronged no man's person or property; did all things well; obeyed the law of God perfectly, and always did the things which were pleasing to God. Thus, from the mouth of one of the malefactors Christ suffered with, was he declared innocent; when the Jews designed, by crucifying him with them, to have led the people to have believed that he suffered for a crime equal, or superior to theirs.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. If thou be the King of the Jews]…
37. If thou be the King of the Jews] as the title over Thy Cross asserts.
The soldiers would delight in these taunts, because, like the ancients generally, they detested all Jews. Tumults of the most violent kind often arose from the brutal insolence of hatred which they shewed to the conquered nation.
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