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Luk 23:35. [Ὁ λαὸς, the people) not the rabble (ὄχλοι) indiscriminately (whether Jews or Gentiles), as in Luk 23:48, but the Jewish people is here meant.-V. g.-θεωρῶν, beholding) The people no doubt feasted their eyes with that spectacle; for Luke states, that the rulers with them.[258] namely, with the people, derided the Saviour. But, a short while after, a check was put upon their fondness (lit. itching) for derision, Luk 23:48.-Harm., p. 564.]-σὺν αὐτοῖς) viz. with those who had crucified Him.[259] [Luke collects into one passage the mocking insults with which Jesus was harassed when being crucified, Luk 23:35-39. The inscription on the cross was itself an insult in the eyes of the heathens. For which reason, Luke makes mention of the vinegar also, which was offered to Him by the soldiers, sooner than the other evangelists.[260]-Harm., p. 566. Men of respectability do not usually, under ordinary circumstances, blend themselves with such scenes; but wantonness and desire of revenge in the present instance took away all regard for their own dignity. No one ever was derided with such sneers as was Jesus. See that you feel grateful to Him, and learn to endure meekly insults, especially when for His sake.-V. g.]-[ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκλεκτὸς, the chosen of GOD) It is not befitting, say they, that the chosen of GOD (if Jesus were really so) should die upon a cross.-V. g.]-οὗτος, this man) Used as a demonstrative, with contempt.
[258] σὺν αὐτοῖς is read in A Vulg. and Rec. Text. But BCDLQbc omit the words.-E. and T.
[259] But the Harm., quoted above, makes it with the people.-E. and T.
[260] Mat 27:48; Mar 15:36; Joh 19:29. But all these describe the second offering of the vinegar, in compassion, to refresh His thirst, just before death. Whereas Mat 27:34, Mar 15:23, and Luke here, Luk 23:35. describes the vinegar, “mingled with gall,” offered in mockery, and at an earlier point of time-E. and T.