Matthew 27:39
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
KJV
οἱ δὲ παραπορευόμενοι ἐβλασφήμουν αὐτὸν, κινοῦντες τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν
Greek NT
Prætereuntes autem blasphemabant eum moventes capita sua,
Vulgate
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,
ASV
And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βλασφημέω
blasphemeo
verb · 34×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κεφαλή
kephale
noun · 75×
κινέω
kineo
verb · 8×
παραπορεύομαι
paraporeuomai
verb · 5×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Ps 22:7 · adapted"All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,"Psalm 22: they mock him, shaking their heads — at the crucifixion
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Many prophets and righteous men (it is said) have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them. Matthew 13:17 Did then those righteous men know all the things to come? Yea, most certainly. For if because of the weakness of those who were not able to receive Him, the Son was not revealed, — …
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? This Psalm is preeminently the Psalm of the Cross. Christ himself uttered these words upon the cross. The details of piercing the hands and feet, casting lots for the garments, the mockery of the bystanders — all were literally fulfilled in the passion of Christ. Yet the Psalm ends in triumph, with the declaration that all the ends of …
And when the Spirit of prophecy speaks from the person of Christ, the utterances are of this sort: I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to those who walk in a way that is not good. Isaiah 65:2 And again: I gave My back to the scourges, and My cheeks to the buffetings; I turned not away My face from the shame of spittings; and the Lord was My helper…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 2:23 — Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
- 2Kgs 19:21 — This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
- Heb 13:13 — Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
- Isa 28:22 — Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
- Isa 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- Jer 18:16 — To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- Job 17:2 — Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
- John 16:20 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
- Lam 1:12 — Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- Lam 2:15 — All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
- Matt 5:11 — Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
- Matt 9:24 — He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
- Matt 26:68 — Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
- Ps 18:4 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
- Ps 22:7 — All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
- Ps 22:17 — I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
- Ps 35:15 — But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
- Ps 109:25 — I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.