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Luke 23:38
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There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews.
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Luke 23:38 Meaning and Commentary
Luke 23:38
And a superscription also was written
Containing the crime he was charged with, and accused of; (See Gill on Matthew 27:37); (See Gill on John 19:19); (See Gill on John 19:20).
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Luke 23:38 In-Context
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The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine
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and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
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There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews.
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One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!"
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But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
Footnotes 1
- [a] Other ancient authorities add [written in Greek and Latin and Hebrew] (that is, [Aramaic])
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