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Luke 23:35
New English Translation
Luke 23:35
New English Translation
35 The people also stood there watching, but the leaders ridiculed[a] him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save[b] himself if[c] he is the Christ[d] of God, his chosen one!”
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- Luke 23:35 tn A figurative extension of the literal meaning “to turn one’s nose up at someone”; here “ridicule, sneer at, show contempt for” (L&N 33.409).
- Luke 23:35 sn The irony in the statement Let him save himself is that salvation did come, but later, not while on the cross.
- Luke 23:35 tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text.
- Luke 23:35 tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”sn See the note on Christ in 2:11.
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