Verse 39
And they that passed by ,.... In the road to or from Jerusalem; for, it seems, the crosses were placed by the wayside; or they who passed by the cross, the populace that came from Jerusalem, on purpose to see the sight,
reviled him , or "blasphemed him": they spoke all manner of evil of him, they could think of, to which he answered not a word; and which may teach us patience under the revilings of men: this was foretold of him, Psalm 89:51 , "they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed", or "Messiah"; and which Jarchi explains by סופי , "the ends of the king Messiah"; his last times, towards the close of his days; and cites that passage in the Misna F26 Sota, c. 9. sect. 15. ,
"in the heels, or, as Buxtorf renders it, in the end of the days of the Messiah impudence shall be multiplied,
as it now was exceedingly:
wagging their heads ; in derision of him, and as exulting in his misery; see Isaiah 37:22 . This also was prophesied of him in
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