Luke 23:39

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then one of the criminals, who was hanging [on a cross also] spoke abusively to Him, saying, “Are you not the Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one]? [If you are], then save yourself and us.”

Cross References

Matthew 27:44

And the thieves who were crucified with Him also heaped the same abuse on Him.

Mark 15:32

This ‘Christ, the king of Israel,’ let him now come down from the cross so we can see it and believe in him.” And the thieves who were being crucified with Him also spoke abusively to Him.

Luke 23:35

People stood [around] watching [all this], while the leaders even sneered at Him, saying, “He saved other people; [now] let him save himself [i.e., from dying] if he [really] is the Christ, God’s specially chosen one.”

Luke 23:37

saying, “If you [really] are the King of the Jews, save yourself.”

Luke 23:40

But the other criminal spoke harshly to the first one, saying, “Do you not even have any fear of God [left], since you [too] are experiencing the same sentence of condemnation?