The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
Parallel translations
- KJV The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
- BSB In the same way, even the robbers who were crucified with Him berated Him.
- NKJV Even the robbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing.
- NASB And the rebels who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him in the same way.
- NLT Even the revolutionaries who were crucified with him ridiculed him in the same way.
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- Mark 15:32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.
- Luke 23:39–43One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”
- Matt 27:38Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
- Job 30:7–9Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.
- Ps 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
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