He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. The chief priests' taunt: he saved others but cannot save himself. The taunt is inadvertently true in the deepest theological sense: he could save himself or save others, not both. The let him come down and we will believe communicates the conditional faith that would believe on the terms it sets — the same sign-demanding that Jesus refused throughout his ministry.

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