35And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
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I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 32-43)In these verses we have, I. Divers passages which we had before in Matthew and Mark concerning Christ’s sufferings. 1. That there were two others, malefactors, led with him to the place of execution, who, it is probable, had been for some time under sentence of death, and were designed to be executed on this day, which was probably the pretence for making such haste in the prosecution of Christ, t…
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