Luk 23:35 | RWP | e4.org | The people stood beholding ( ιστηκε ). Past perfect active of ιστημ , intransitive and like imperfect. A graphic picture of the dazed multitude, some of whom may have been in the Triumphal Entry on Sunday morning. Scoffed ( εξεμυκτηριζον ). Imperfect active, perhaps inchoative, began to turn up (out, εξ ) at the dying Christ. The language comes from . The Christ of God ( ο Χριστος του θεου ). He had claimed to be just this ( , ). The sarcastic sneer (he saved others; let him save others, for himself he cannot save) is in ; . Luke alone gives the contemptuous use of ουτος (this fellow) and the fling in "the elect" ( ο εκλεκτος ). These rulers were having their day at last.

‏ Luke 23:35

The people stood beholding ( ιστηκε ). Past perfect active of ιστημ, intransitive and like imperfect. A graphic picture of the dazed multitude, some of whom may have been in the Triumphal Entry on Sunday morning.

Scoffed ( εξεμυκτηριζον ). Imperfect active, perhaps inchoative, began to turn up (out, εξ ) at the dying Christ. The language comes from Ps 22:7.

The Christ of God ( ο Χριστος του θεου ). He had claimed to be just this (22:67, 70). The sarcastic sneer (he saved others; let him save others, for himself he cannot save) is in Mr 15:31; Mt 27:42. Luke alone gives the contemptuous use of ουτος (this fellow) and the fling in "the elect" ( ο εκλεκτος ). These rulers were having their day at last.