All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
The verse pictures three distinct acts of scorn toward the sufferer: onlookers laughing him to scorn and mocking him, making a contemptuous gesture with the lip or mouth, and shaking or wagging their heads at him. It foretells Christ's rejection, humiliation and suffering, fulfilled when He died on the cross as a condemned criminal in a shameful public execution. There He was exposed to ridicule, taunts, reviling, jeers and public abuse from the mob and crowd, derided and mocked by those who saw Him as He hung there.
That mockery was fulfilled at the cross when passersby reviled Him and wagged their heads while taunting Him to save Himself. Priests, rulers, scribes, hardened soldiers, the multitude, the base and cruel among them, a vile thief, and others joined in mocking and jeering the dying Son of God. Together with the next verse it foretells taunts against His trust in God, demanding that God deliver Him now and sneering at His claim to be God's Son. Those taunts included If thou be the King of the Jews save thyself, He saved others Himself He cannot save, let Him now come down from the cross, and railing over destroying the temple and building it in three days.
Those who jeered repeated the foretold gestures and words without recognizing it, unknowingly fulfilling the prophecy. Even those who professed to be expounders of prophecy repeated those very words inspiration foretold, yet in blindness did not perceive they were fulfilling prophecy. He felt the contempt deeply, yet submitted to the shameful execution as man's substitute while bearing the sins of the guilty.
The verse pictures three distinct acts of scorn toward the sufferer: onlookers laughing him to scorn and mocking him, making a contemptuous gesture with the lip or mouth, and shaking or wagging their heads at him. It foretells Christ's rejection, humiliation and suffering, fulfilled when He died on the cross as a condemned criminal in a shameful public execution. There He was exposed to ridicule, taunts, reviling, jeers and public abuse from the mob and crowd, derided and mocked by those who saw Him as He hung there.
That mockery was fulfilled at the cross when passersby reviled Him and wagged their heads while taunting Him to save Himself. Priests, rulers, scribes, hardened soldiers, the multitude, the base and cruel among them, a vile thief, and others joined in mocking and jeering the dying Son of God. Together with the next verse it foretells taunts against His trust in God, demanding that God deliver Him now and sneering at His claim to be God's Son. Those taunts included If thou be the King of the Jews save thyself, He saved others Himself He cannot save, let Him now come down from the cross, and railing over destroying the temple and building it in three days.
Those who jeered repeated the foretold gestures and words without recognizing it, unknowingly fulfilling the prophecy. Even those who professed to be expounders of prophecy repeated those very words inspiration foretold, yet in blindness did not perceive they were fulfilling prophecy. He felt the contempt deeply, yet submitted to the shameful execution as man's substitute while bearing the sins of the guilty.