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Matthew 27:39

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¶ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
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  1. Psalms 109:25Rank 1 from verse 39
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    25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

  2. Lamentations 1:12Rank 2 from verse 39
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    12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

  3. 1 Peter 2:22–24Rank 3 from verse 39
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    22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

    23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

    24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

  4. Job 16:4Rank 4 from verse 39
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    4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

  5. Lamentations 2:15–17Rank 5 from verse 39
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    15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

    16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

    17The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

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Matthew 27:39

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passed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of pass, meaning to go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.

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reviled

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Reproached; treated with opprobrious or contemptuous language.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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27:39¶ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

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27:40And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

27:41Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,

27:42He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

27:43He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

27:44The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

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