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John Gill
And the people stood beholding,.... This dismal and affecting sight; insulting and reviling him, and wagging their heads at him, as did also those that passed by: and the rulers also with them derided him; the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, the members of the sanhedrim, whose characters should have restrained them from such an inhuman conduct. The phrase, "with them", is wanting in the...
Matthew Henry
This chapter carries on and concludes the history of Christ's sufferings and death. We have here, I. His arraignment before Pilate the Roman governor, ver. 1-5. II. His examination before Herod, who was tetrarch of Galilee, under the Romans likewise, ver. 6-12. III. Pilate's struggle with the people to release Jesus, his repeated testimonies concerning his innocency, but his yielding at length to...
Charles H. Spurgeon
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. You know how mockery puts salt and vinegar into a wound. A man does not at any time like to be reviled; but when he is full of physical and mental anguish, and his heart is heavy within him, then ridicule is peculiarly full of acid to him.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And the people stood beholding. There was no pity in their eyes. No one of them turned away his face because he could not look upon so disgraceful a deed. Luk_23:35. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. I have already reminded you that there was a deep truth hidden away in what these cruel mockers said, for...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And the rulers also with them derided him, Laughed at him, made him the object of course jests. Luk_23:35. Saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar. In mockery, not giving it to him, as they did later in mercy; but in mockery, pretending to present him with weak wine, such as they...