Lukas 23:48

48 And when all the hamon (crowd) that had assembled at this spectacle had observed the things that had happened, they went away beating their chests.

Lukas 23:48 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:48

And all the people that came together to that sight
To see the execution of Jesus; and some of them might be his inveterate enemies, and came to insult him, and did insult him; many of these, though not every individual of them:

beholding the things which were done;
the eclipse, earthquake

smote their breasts;
as conscious of guilt, and as fearing some dreadful judgment would fall upon them, and their nation, for this sin of crucifying Christ. The Persic version reads, "they went back, and kneeled down, and prostrated themselves to the ground"; as being in the utmost astonishment, confusion, fear, and dread:

and returned;
to the city, and to their own houses, where they might more seriously, and with the greater composure of mind, reflect on these things.

Lukas 23:48 In-Context

46 And having cried out with a kol gadol, he said, Abba, BYADCHA AFKID RUCHI (into your hands I commit my ruach TEHILLIM 31:6[5]). And this having said, he breathed out his last.

47 And the centurion who saw the thing that happened was saying, Baruch Hashem, surely this man was a Tzaddik.

48 And when all the hamon (crowd) that had assembled at this spectacle had observed the things that had happened, they went away beating their chests.

49 And all his acquaintances stood at a distance and the nashim, the ones following him from the Galil, observed these things.

50 And, hinei, a man by name Yosef being a member of the Sanhedrin, and an ish tov and a tzaddik