Luke 23:37

Green's Literal Translation

and saying, If You are the king of the Jews, save Yourself.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Many called out to Jesus saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, prove it by saving yourself!"

Legacy Standard Bible
and saying, "If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and saying, "If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!"

Bible in Basic English
And saying, If you are the King of the Jews, get yourself free.

Darby Translation
and saying, If *thou* be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

New King James Version
and saying, "If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself."

Christian Standard Bible®
and said, "If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!"

World English Bible
and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Are *you* the King of the Jews? Save yourself, then!"

King James Version (1611)
And saying, If thou be the king of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde: Yf thou be the kynge of the Iewes, then helpe thyself.

Mace New Testament (1729)
saying, if thou art the king of the Jews, save thy self.

Amplified Bible
and sarcastically saying, "If you are [really] the King of the Jews, save Yourself [from death]!"

American Standard Version
and saying, If thou art the King of the Jews, save thyself.

Revised Standard Version
and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and sayde: yf thou be that kynge of ye Iewes save thy silfe.

Update Bible Version
and saying, If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself.

Webster's Bible Translation
And saying, If thou art the King of the Jews, save thyself.

New Century Version
They said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

New English Translation
and saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

Contemporary English Version
They said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

Complete Jewish Bible
and said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And said, If thou be the King of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.

George Lamsa Translation
Saying to him, If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.

Hebrew Names Version
and saying, "If you are the King of the Yehudim, save yourself!"

International Standard Version
and saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

Etheridge Translation
said to him, If thou art the King of the Jihudoyee, save thyself.

Murdock Translation
and saying to him: If thou art the king of the Jews, quicken thyself.

New Living Translation
They called out to him, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

New Life Bible
They said, "If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself."

English Revised Version
and saying, If thou art the King of the Jews, save thyself.

Berean Standard Bible
"If You are the King of the Jews," they said, "save Yourself!"

New Revised Standard
and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and saying - If, thou, art the King of the Jews, save thyself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

King James Version
And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

Lexham English Bible
and saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And sayd: If thou be the kyng of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.

Easy-to-Read Version
They said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

English Standard Version
and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

New American Standard Bible
and saying, "If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!"

Good News Translation
and said, "Save yourself if you are the king of the Jews!"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seiden, If thou art king of Jewis, make thee saaf.

Young's Literal Translation
and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.'

Contextual Overview

³² And two others, two criminals, were led with Him to be put to death. ³³ And when they came on the place being called Skull, they crucified Him and the criminals there, one on the right, and one on the left. ³⁴ And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. And dividing His garments, they cast a lot. Psa. 22:18 ³⁵ And the people stood watching. And the rulers with them also scoffed, saying, He saved others; let Him save Himself, if this One is the Christ, the Elect of God. ³⁶ And coming near, the soldiers also mocked Him and were offering vinegar to Him, ³⁷ and saying, If You are the king of the Jews, save Yourself. ³⁸ And also an inscription was written over Him, in Greek and Latin and Hebrew letters: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. ³⁹ And one of the hanged criminals blasphemed Him, saying, If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us. ⁴⁰ But answering, the other rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear God, for you are in the same judgment? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we receive things worthy of what we did. But this One did nothing wrong.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Matthew 27:29 - Hail Mark 15:18 - Hail Mark 15:26 - The King of the Jews

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And saying, if thou be the King of the Jews,.... Or their Messiah, who was spoken of as a divine person; for otherwise he might have been their king, and not have been able to have done what is proposed:

save thyself: or deliver thyself from the cross.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 27:41-44.

Luke 23:38

In letters of Greek ... - See the notes at Matthew 27:37.

Luke 23:39

One of the malefactors - Matthew Matthew 27:44 says “the thieves - cast the same in his teeth.” See the apparent contradiction in these statements reconciled in the notes at that place.

If thou be Christ - If thou art the Messiah; if thou art what thou dost pretend to be. This is a taunt or reproach of the same kind as that of the priests in Luke 23:35.

Save thyself and us - Save our lives. Deliver us from the cross. This man did not seek for salvation truly; he asked not to be delivered from his sins; if he had, Jesus would also have heard him. Men often, in sickness and affliction, call upon God. They are earnest in prayer. They ask of God to save them, but it is only to save them from “temporal” death. It is not to be saved from their sins, and the consequence is, that when God “does” raise them up, they forget their promises, and live as they did before, as this robber “would” have done if Jesus had heard his prayer and delivered him from the cross.