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Mark 15:31

Mark 15:31 is verse 31 of Mark chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

In the same way, the chief priests and scribes mocked Him among themselves, saying, “He saved others, but He cannot save Himself!

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King James Version

Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.

World English Bible

Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.

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Mark 15:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible

29 And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

30 come down from the cross and save Yourself!”

31 In the same way, the chief priests and scribes mocked Him among themselves, saying, “He saved others, but He cannot save Himself!

32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” And even those who were crucified with Him berated Him.

33 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 2:1

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalms 2:2

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

Psalms 2:3

“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”

Psalms 2:4

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.

Psalms 22:16

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 22:17

I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

Matthew 27:41

In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,

Matthew 27:42

“He saved others, but He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

Matthew 27:43

He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

Luke 23:35

The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”

Luke 23:36

The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.

Luke 23:37

“If You are the King of the Jews,” they said, “save Yourself!”

John 11:47

Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

John 11:48

If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

John 11:49

But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

John 11:50

You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

John 11:51

Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

John 11:52

and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

John 12:23

But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

John 12:24

Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

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