Context: Mat 27:39 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads
Mat 27:40 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”
Mat 27:41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,
Mat 27:42 “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
Mat 27:43 He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.'”
Mat 27:44 And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.
RESOURCES
What are the commands of Jesus Christ which we need to obey? In disciple-making, Jesus commanded the following in Matthew 28:20: “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you…” What are the commands that we are to follow and teach others as identified by Jesus’ use of the imperative mood in the Greek?
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