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The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
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The Summit of Scorn
Commentators emphasize that the mockery from the robbers represents the peak of Jesus' humiliation. He was scorned by every group: religious leaders, the crowd, and even fellow criminals sharing his fate. This shows the totality of the rejection He endured for humanity, fulfilling the prophecy of being 'numbered with the transgressors.'
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18th Century
Theologian
The thieves also. The robbers, or highwaymen. Luke says in Luke 23:39 that one of them said it, and that the other reproved him and was pe…
The robbers also (κα ο ληιστα). Probably "even the robbers" (Weymouth) who felt a momentary superiority to Jesus thus maligned by …
19th Century
Preacher
The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
The sharers of his misery, the outcasts who were cruci…
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All the principal groups of the Sanhedrin do not address Jesus directly but speak of him in the third person, in a stage whisper meant for his ears…
16th Century
And the robbers also. Matthew and Mark, by synecdoche, attribute to the robbers what was done by only one of them, as is evident …
17th Century
Pastor
The thieves also One or other of them, not both; an Hebrew way of speaking, as Drusius F2 observed: so it…
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Minister
It was customary to shame criminals by posting a written notice of the crime for which they suffered. So they placed such a notice over Christ's he…
13th Century
Philosopher
After relating His condemnation, His Passion and death are treated here; and secondly, His burial is treated, where it is said, And whe…