Matthew 27:39

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Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads

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  • Ps 109:25 : 25 I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.
  • Lam 1:12 : 12 ל(Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord has afflicted me, he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger.
  • Lam 2:15-17 : 15 ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” 16 פ(Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said,“We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!” 17 ע(Ayin) The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power.
  • Mark 15:29-30 : 29 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying,“Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, 30 save yourself and come down from the cross!”
  • Luke 23:35-39 : 35 The people also stood there watching, but the leaders ridiculed him, saying,“He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!” 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, 37 and saying,“If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!” 38 There was also an inscription over him,“This is the king of the Jews.” 39 One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying,“Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
  • 1 Pet 2:22-24 : 22 He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • Job 16:4 : 4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.
  • Ps 22:6-7 : 6 But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me. 7 All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.
  • Ps 22:17 : 17 I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.
  • Ps 31:11-13 : 11 Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me. 12 I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar. 13 For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.
  • Ps 35:15-21 : 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest. 16 When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me. 17 O Lord, how long are you going to watch this? Rescue me from their destructive attacks; guard my life from the young lions! 18 Then I will give you thanks in the great assembly; I will praise you before a large crowd of people! 19 Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes! 20 For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who live peacefully in the land. 21 They are ready to devour me; they say,“Aha! Aha! We’ve got you!”
  • Ps 69:7-9 : 7 For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced. 8 My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner. 9 Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you. 10 I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me. 11 I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me. 12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
  • Ps 109:2 : 2 For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me.

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  • Mark 15:29-32
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    29Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying,“Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

    30save yourself and come down from the cross!”

    31In the same way even the chief priests– together with the experts in the law– were mocking him among themselves:“He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

    32Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

  • Matt 27:44
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    44The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

  • Matt 27:40-42
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    40and saying,“You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”

    41In the same way even the chief priests– together with the experts in the law and elders– were mocking him:

    42“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him!

  • Matt 27:35-38
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    35When they had crucified him, they divided his clothes by throwing dice.

    36Then they sat down and kept guard over him there.

    37Above his head they put the charge against him, which read:“This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.”

    38Then two outlaws were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

  • Matt 27:28-33
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    28They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,

    29and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him:“Hail, king of the Jews!”

    30They spat on him and took the staff and struck him repeatedly on the head.

    31When they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

    32The Crucifixion As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

    33They came to a place called Golgotha(which means“Place of the Skull”)

  • Luke 23:32-40
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    32Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

    33So when they came to the place that is called“The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

    34[But Jesus said,“Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

    35The people also stood there watching, but the leaders ridiculed him, saying,“He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

    36The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

    37and saying,“If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!”

    38There was also an inscription over him,“This is the king of the Jews.”

    39One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying,“Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”

    40But the other rebuked him, saying,“Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

  • Mark 15:26-27
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    26The inscription of the charge against him read,“The king of the Jews.”

    27And they crucified two outlaws with him, one on his right and one on his left.

  • Mark 15:17-20
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    17They put a purple cloak on him and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

    18They began to salute him:“Hail, king of the Jews!”

    19Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.

    20When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

  • John 19:2-3
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    2The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.

    3They came up to him again and again and said,“Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly in the face.

  • Mark 15:13
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    13They shouted back,“Crucify him!”

  • John 19:17-18
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    17and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called“The Place of the Skull”(called in Aramaic Golgotha).

    18There they crucified him along with two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.

  • Matt 27:23
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    23He asked,“Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently,“Crucify him!”

  • Luke 22:63
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    63Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

  • Mark 10:34
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    34They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again.”

  • Matt 20:19
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    19and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised.”

  • Luke 23:21
    73%

    21But they kept on shouting,“Crucify, crucify him!”

  • Matt 26:67
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    67Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

  • Luke 23:23
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    23But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.

  • Ps 109:25
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    25I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

  • Luke 18:32
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    32For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on.

  • Luke 18:37
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    37They told him,“Jesus the Nazarene is passing by.”