Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And 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.

Derided

General references

Bible References

The people

Matthew 27:38
At that time two robbers, also, were crucified with him; one on his right hand, the other on his left.
Mark 15:29
And the passers-by kept jeering at him, wagging their heads and saying. "Ah! you who were to 'destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,' save yourself!

Derided

Luke 16:14
Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.

Christ

Luke 22:67
"Are you the Christ? Tell us!" "If I tell you," he answered, "you will not believe;
Matthew 3:17
while a voice from heaven said, "This is my son, the beloved, In whom I delight."
Matthew 12:18
Behold my servant whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom my soul delights; I will breathe my spirit upon him, and he shall announce justice to the Gentiles.
1 Peter 2:4
Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious.

General references

Matthew 27:41
In like manner the chief priests, too, with the Scribes and elders, kept taunting him.