Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,
Parallel translations
- KJV Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
- BSB In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,
- NKJV Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said,
- NASB In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking Him and saying,
- NLT The leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders also mocked Jesus.
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- Ps 35:26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
- Isa 28:22Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
- Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
- Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
- Mark 15:31–32Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.
- Job 13:9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
- Luke 23:35The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
- Luke 22:52Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
- Ps 22:12–13Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
- Luke 18:32For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
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