Mark 15:31

31 So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, ¹“He saved others; ²he cannot save himself.

Mark 15:31 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:31

Likewise also the chief priests mocking
Or "laughed at one another", as the Syriac version renders it, having gained their point, and satiated their revenge on him:

said among themselves with the Scribes;
who were likewise his implacable enemies;

he saved others, himself he cannot save; (See Gill on Matthew 27:41), (See Gill on Matthew 27:42).

Mark 15:31 In-Context

29 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

30 save yourself, and come down from the cross! ”

31 So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.

32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe. ” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

33 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Cross References

• 1. 15:31 [Luke 4:23]
• 2. 15:31 [Matt. 26:53, 54; John 10:18]