31Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
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And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. …
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. …
Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, …
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-32)We have here the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus. I. The place where he was crucified; it was called Golgotha—the place of a scull : some think, because of the heads of malefactors that were there cut off: it was the common place of execution, as Tyburn, for he was in all respects numbered with the transgressors. I know not how to give any credit to it, but divers of the ancients mention it as a cur…
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