Matthew 27:39
and those passing by kept slandering Him, wagging their heads,
Literal Standard 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 on the right hand and one on the left,
Cross References
Job 16:4I also, like you, might speak, || If your soul were in my soul’s stead. I might join against you with words, || And nod at you with my head.
Psalms 22:6And I [am] a worm, and no man, || A reproach of man, and despised of the people.
Psalms 31:11I have been a reproach among all my adversaries, || And to my neighbors exceedingly, || And a fear to my acquaintances, || Those seeing me without—fled from me.
Psalms 69:7For because of You I have borne reproach, || Shame has covered my face.
Psalms 109:2For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, || They have opened against me, || They have spoken with me—A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!
Lamentations 1:12[Is it] nothing to you, all you passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, || If there is any pain like my pain, || That He is rolling to me? Whom YHWH has afflicted || In the day of the fierceness of His 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 →