Luke 23:35

The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed ¹  him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save ²  himself if ³  he is the Christ ⁴  of God, his chosen one!”

Ge 37:19,20; Ps 4:2; Ps 22:6-8; Ps 22:12,13,17; Ps 35:15,19-25; Ps 69:7-12,26; Ps 71:11; Isa 42:1; Isa 49:7; Isa 53:3; La 3:14; Zec 12:10; Mt 3:17; Mt 12:18; Mt 27:38-43; Mr 15:29-32; Lu 16:14; Lu 22:67-70; 1Pe 2:4

¹ 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).

² sn The irony in the statement Let him save himself is that salvation did come, but later, not while on the cross.

³ tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text.

⁴ 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.