Luke 16:14

More Warnings about the Pharisees

16:14 The Pharisees ¹  (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed ²  him.

Luke 23:35

23:35 The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed ³  him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save ⁴  himself if ⁵  he is the Christ ⁶  of God, his chosen one!”

¹ sn See the note on Pharisees in 5:17.

² tn A figurative extension of the literal meaning “to turn one’s nose up at someone”; here “ridicule, sneer at, show contempt for” (L&N 33.409).

³ tn A figurative extension of the literal meaning “to turn one’s nose up at someone”; here “ridicule, sneer at, show contempt for” (L&N 33.409).

⁴ sn The irony in the statement Let him save himself is that salvation did come, but later, not while on the cross.

⁵ tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text.

⁶ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”