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30 Now rescue [a]Yourself [[b]from death], coming down from the cross!

31 So also the chief priests, with the scribes, made sport of Him to one another, saying, He rescued others [[c]from death]; Himself He is unable to rescue.(A)

32 Let the Christ (the Messiah), the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see [it] and trust in and rely on Him and adhere to Him! Those who were crucified with Him also reviled and reproached Him [speaking abusively, harshly, and insolently].

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 15:30 Capitalized because of what He is, the spotless Son of God, not what the speakers may have thought He was.
  2. Mark 15:30 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  3. Mark 15:31 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.

30 come down from the cross and save yourself!” 31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him(A) among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! 32 Let this Messiah,(B) this king of Israel,(C) come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

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