Lucas 23:35

35 La gente, por su parte, se quedó allí observando, y aun los gobernantes estaban burlándose de él.—Salvó a otros —decían—; que se salve a sí mismo, si es el Cristo de Dios, el Escogido.

Lucas 23:35 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:35

And the people stood beholding
This dismal and affecting sight; insulting and reviling him, and wagging their heads at him, as did also those that passed by: and the rulers also with them derided him; the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, the members of the sanhedrim, whose characters should have restrained them from such an inhuman conduct. The phrase, "with them", is wanting in the Oriental versions, and in one of Beza's copies: saying,

he saved others;
by healing their diseases, or raising them from the dead:

let him save himself;
from death, by unnailing himself, and coming down from the cross; (See Gill on Matthew 27:42)

if he be Christ;
the Messiah, he and his followers give out he is; even the chosen of God, referring to ( Isaiah 42:1 ) . The Arabic version reads, "the chosen Son of God", very wrongly; for Christ was not chosen to be the Son of God; he was so by nature; but he was chosen to be a servant, as the text cited shows, to be a Mediator between God and man, and the Saviour of his people.

Lucas 23:35 In-Context

33 Cuando llegaron al lugar llamado la Calavera, lo crucificaron allí, junto con los criminales, uno a su derecha y otro a su izquierda.

34 —Padre —dijo Jesús—, perdónalos, porque no saben lo que hacen.Mientras tanto, echaban suertes para repartirse entre sí la ropa de Jesús.

35 La gente, por su parte, se quedó allí observando, y aun los gobernantes estaban burlándose de él.—Salvó a otros —decían—; que se salve a sí mismo, si es el Cristo de Dios, el Escogido.

36 También los soldados se acercaron para burlarse de él. Le ofrecieron vinagre

37 y le dijeron:—Si eres el rey de los judíos, sálvate a ti mismo.