Lucas 23:35

The Jewish people (Gr. laos) stood by looking on in fulfillment of prophecy (Psalms 21:8). Perhaps Luke wrote that even the rulers sneered at Jesus because they of all the people should have been the most compassionate toward someone in Jesus’ position (cf. Psalms 22:6-8). Instead they mocked His apparent impotence. They may have meant "saved" (Gr. esosen) in the sense of physical deliverance, or they may have meant it ironically, meaning that He claimed to save people spiritually. Both meanings could have been in their minds. The title "God’s Chosen One" reflects what Jesus claimed that He was and what the Father had acknowledged Jesus to be at the Transfiguration (Luke 9:35; cf. Isaiah 42:1; 1 Peter 2:4).

"Jesus crucified is the touchstone revealing what the world is: ’The people stood beholding’ in stolid indifference; the rulers, who wanted religion but without a divine Christ crucified for their sins, mocked (Matthew 27:41); the brutal ’railed at him’ (Luke 23:39), i.e. reviled Him; the conscious sinner prayed (Luke 23:42); and the covetous sat down before the cross and played their sordid game (Matthew 27:35-36). The cross is the judgment of this world (John 12:31)." [Note: The New Scofield . . ., p. 1119.]