Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the scribes and elders, said,
Parallel translations
- WEB Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,
- 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,
- 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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Quick answer
The chief priests, scribes, and elders join in the mockery. The religious leaders scorn Him alongside the crowd.
Overview
The very leaders responsible for Jesus' death add their voices to the ridicule at the cross. Their participation shows the depth of their hostility and spiritual blindness. Those entrusted with guiding Israel mock its true Shepherd, fulfilling the rejection foretold of the Messiah.
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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.
- Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
- 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?
- 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!”
- 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.”
- Luke 18:32For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
- Ps 22:12–13Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
- Mark 15:31–32Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.
- 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.
- Job 13:9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
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