One of the criminals hanging beside him scoffed, “So you’re the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself—and us, too, while you’re at it!”
Even the revolutionaries who were crucified with him ridiculed him in the same way.
Let this Messiah, this King of Israel, come down from the cross so we can see it and believe him!” Even the men who were crucified with Jesus ridiculed him.
The crowd watched and the leaders scoffed. “He saved others,” they said, “let him save himself if he is really God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
They called out to him, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
But the other criminal protested, “Don’t you fear God even when you have been sentenced to die?