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Luke 23:36

Luke 23:36
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Luke 23:35-39

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 23:32-43

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,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

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…