MATTHEW 27:41 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,”
So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying. The second source of taunting: the chief priests, scribes, and elders — the three groups who together comprised the Sanhedrin — continue their mockery at the cross. The religious leaders who pronounced the death sentence now stand at the cross and continue their campaign of derision.
Church Fathers on Matthew 27:41
Having stripped and crucified Christ, they go yet further, and seeing Him on the cross revile Him.
'They revile him' because they passed by that way, and would not walk in the true way of the Scriptures. 'They wagged their heads,' because they had just before shifted their feet, and stood not upon a rock. The foolish rabble cast the same taunt against Him that the false witnesses had invented, 'Aha! thou that destroyest the temple of God and rebuildest it in three days.'
'Aha!' is an interjection of taunt and mockery.
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