Matthew 27:39
And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
In Context
38Then two robbers are crucified with him, one at the right hand and one at the left.
Cross References
Job 16:4I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
Psalms 31:11I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me.
Psalms 69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face.
Psalms 109:2for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by? Behold, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought upon me. Therewith LORD has afflicted in the day of his fierce anger.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:34-50
The Crucifixion. 33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, 34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. 35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. 36 And sitting down they watched him there; 37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS… Read the whole commentary →