“If you're the King of the Jews, then save yourself.”
“He saved other people, but he can't save himself!” they said. “If he really is the king of Israel, let him come down from the cross, and then we'll believe him!
He trusts God so confidently—well let God rescue him now if he wants him, because he claimed ‘I am the Son of God.’”
A sign with the written charge against him read: “The King of the Jews.”
One of the criminals hanging there joined in the insults against Jesus. “Aren't you the Messiah?” he asked. “Then save yourself—and us too!”
