Luke 23:39
And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
KJV
Εἷς δὲ τῶν κρεμασθέντων κακούργων ἐβλασφήμει αὐτόν· οὐχὶ σὺ εἶ ὁ Χριστός; σῶσον σεαυτὸν καὶ ἡμᾶς.
Greek NT
Unus autem de his, qui pendebant, latronibus, blasphemabat eum, dicens : Si tu es Christus, salvum fac temetipsum et nos.
Vulgate
And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.
ASV
And one of those robbers who were hanged blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βλασφημέω
blasphemeo
verb · 34×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κακοῦργος
kakourgos
adjective · 4×
κρεμάννυμι
kremannumi
verb · 7×
οὐχί
ouchi
particle · 53×
σεαυτοῦ
seautou
reflexive_pronoun · 43×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
σώζω
sozo
verb · 106×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: λέγων | Treg/NIV/RP: λέγων
- λέγων — SBLGNT
- λέγων — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: Οὐχὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: Οὐχὶ | RP: Εἰ
- Οὐχὶ — SBLGNT
- Οὐχὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Εἰ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§440Jesus accepted Peter's profession of faith, which acknowledged him to be the Messiah, by announcing the imminent Passion of the Son of Man.40 He unveiled the authentic content of his messianic kingship both in the transcendent identity of the Son of Man "who came down from heaven", and in his redemptive mission as the suffering Servant: "The Son of Man came not to be served but…
§2616Prayer to Jesus is answered by him already during his ministry, through signs that anticipate the power of his death and Resurrection: Jesus hears the prayer of faith, expressed in words (the leper, Jairus, the Canaanite woman, the good thief)84 or in silence (the bearers of the paralytic, the woman with a hemorrhage who touches his clothes, the tears and ointment of the sinful…
Cross-references
- Job 1:8 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
- Jude 1:9 — Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
- Luke 17:34 — I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
- Luke 23:35 — And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
- Luke 23:37 — And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
- Mark 9:12 — And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
- Mark 15:32 — Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
- Mark 15:32 — Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
- Matt 27:38 — Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
- Matt 27:44 — The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
- Matt 27:44 — The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.