23. Καὶ ἐδίδουν αὐτῷ πιεῖν 3 ἐσμυρνισμένον οἶνον : ὁ δὲ 5 οὐκ ἔλαβε. 24. Καὶ σταυρώσαντες * αὐτόν, διεµέριζον ὅ τὰ ἵμάτια αὐτοῦ, βάλλοντες κλῆρον ἐπ᾽ αὐτά, τίς τί ἄρη. 25. ἦν δὲ Spa τρίτη, καὶ ἐσταύρωσαν αὐτόν. 26. Καὶ jv ἡ ἐπιγραφὴ τῆς αἰτίας αὐτοῦ ἐπιγεγραμμένη, “΄ Ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ιουδαίων. 27. Καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ σταυροῦσι δύο λῃστάς, ἕνα ἐκ δεξιῶν καὶ ἕνα ἐξ εὐωνύμων 28. καὶ ἐπληρώθη ἡ γραφὴ ἡ λέγουσα, ‘Kai μετὰ ἀνόμων ἐλογίσθη. 29. Kat ot παραπορευόµενοι ἐβλασφήμουν αὐτόν, κινοῦντες τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν, καὶ λέγοντες, “Odd, ὁ καταλύων
µενον,] Κρανίου τόπος.
αὐτοῦ.
τὸν vadv, καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις οἰκοδομῶν,! 30. σῶσον σεαυτόν, καὶ 31. Ὁμοίως S€9 καὶ of ἀρχιερεῖς ἐμπαίζοντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους μετὰ τῶν γραμµατέων ἔλεγον, “"Ἄλλους 32. 6 Χριστὸς 6 βασιλεὺς τοῦ 19
A a? κατάβα ὃ ἀπὸ τοῦ otaupou.”
” « x > , lal ἔσωσεν, ἑαυτὸν οὐ δύναται σῶσαι. , A , a a A a ο 3 ‘ , aD lopayd καταβάτω νῦν ἀπὸ τοῦ σταυροῦ, ἵνα ἴδωμεν καὶ πιστεύσωμεν.
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1 µεθερµηνευοµενος in SBE. 3 os δε in WB 33.
2 SBCLA omit πιειν.
‘For the participle BL have σταυρονσιν αντον και.
5 For διεµεριζον (in minusc. only) read διαµεριζονται.
© S$ABCD sah. omit this verse, which i
s interpolated from Lk. xxii. 37.
7 οικοδοµων before tpt. np. in BDL. ev is wanting in D and other uncials (Tisch.
omits, W.H. brackets).
8 For και καταβα SSBDLA have καταβας.
9 $e omitted in NBCLAail. verss.
that He was unable to walk, not to speak of carrying His cross. He had to be borne as the sick were borne to Him (Mk. i. 32).—Ver. 23. éSi5o0uv: the conative imperfect = they tried to give, offered. — ἐσμυρνισμένον οἶνον, wine drugged with myrrh, here only in N. T. Cf. Mt.’s account.—otk ἔλαβεν: Mt. says Jesus tasted the drink. He would not take it because He knew that it was meant to stupefy.—Ver. 24. τίς τί ἄρῃ, who should receive what; two questions pithily condensed into one, another example in Lk. xix. 15, vide Winer, § Ixvi., 5, 3-—Ver. 25. Gpa τρίτη, the third hour = nine o’clock as we reckon ; raising a harmonistic problem when compared with John xix. 14. Grotius comments: “id est, jam audita erat tuba horae tertiae, quod dici solebat donec caneret tuba horae sextae”’ (they called it the third hour till the sixth was sounded).—xat = when, Hebraistic, but also not without example in classics in similar connections : the fact stated con- nected with its time by a simple καὶ ; instances in Meyer.—Ver. 26. ἐπιγραφὴ ἐπιγεγραμμένη: awkwardly expressed ; Με, and Lk. have phrases which look
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NEDLA omit τον before Ισραηλ.
like corrections of style.—é Bac. τῶν
*lov8.: the simplest form of the in- scription. Vv. 29-32. Taunts of spectators (Mt.
xxvii. 39-44, Lk. xxiii. 35, 37, 39).—Ver. 29. ova = Latin, vah, expressing here ironical admiration: ‘‘ admirandi vim cum ironia habet,” Bengel. Raphel re- marks that this word was not given in the Greek Lexicons, but that it is not there- fore to be regarded as a Latinism peculiar to Mk., but rather as a word which had been adopted and used by the later Greeks, e.g., Arrian. Here only in N. T.—Ver. 30. καταβὰς (καὶ κατάβα, T.R.), etc.,save Thyself, having descended, etc., or by descending = descend and so save Thyself.—Ver. 31. οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς : both in Mt. and in Mk. the priests lead in the unhallowed chuckling, scribes and elders (Με) being mentioned only subordinately (pera, etc.).—ampds ἀλλή- λους: a common fear gives place to a common sportiveness in this unholy brotherhood, now that the cause of their fear is removed.—Ver. 32. ἵνα ἴδωμεν that we may see (in the descent from the cross) an unmistakable sign from heaven of Messiahship, and so believe in Thee.—
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Καὶ οἱ συνεσταυρωµένοι 1 αὐτῷ ὠνείδιζον αὐτόν.