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- Luke
- Chapter 23
- Verse 36
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
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Gill's Exposition
But the other answering, rebuked him,.... That is, the other malefactor made answer to him, and reproved him for his baseness and wickedness:
saying, dost not thou fear God; or "neither dost thou…
See the notes at Mat 27:41-44. Luk 23:38 In letters of Greek ... - See the notes at Mat 27:37. Luk 23:39 One of the malefactors - Matthew Mat 27:44 says “the thieves - cast the same in his teeth.” See…
Adam Clarke
Offering him vinegar - See on Mat 27:34 (note). Vinegar or small sour wine, was a common drink of the Roman soldiers; and it is supposed that wherever they were on duty they had a vessel of this…
In these verses we have,
I. Divers passages which we had before in Matthew and Mark concerning Christ's sufferings. 1. That there were two others, malefactors, led with him to the place of execution,…
Cambridge Bible
the soldiers also mocked him A quaternion of soldiers (Joh 19:23) with a centurion. Similarly Tacitus says of the Christian martyrs who perished in the Neronian persecution, "pereuntibus addita…
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