Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 23:48 - 23:48

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Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 23:48 - 23:48


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Certainly (ontōs). Really, old adverb from the participle on from eimi, to be. Used also in Luk 24:34 of the resurrection of Jesus.

A righteous man (dikaios). Mar 15:39 (Mat 27:54) which see, represents the centurion as saying theou huios (God’s Son) which may mean to him little more than “righteous man.”

That came together (sunparagenomenoi). Double compound (sun, together, para, along), that came along together.

To this sight (epi tēn theōrian tautēn). This spectacle (theōrian from theōreō, Luk 23:35).

Returned (hupestrephon). Imperfect active of hupostrephō. See them slowly wending their way back to the city from this Tragedy of the Ages which they had witnessed in awe.