Luke 23:37

Contemporary English Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and said, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”

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

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

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!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Easy-to-Read Version
They 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!"

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

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

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

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."

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Contextual Overview

³² Two criminals were led out to be put to death with Jesus. ³³ When the soldiers came to the place called "The Skull," they nailed Jesus to a cross. They also nailed the two criminals to crosses, one on each side of Jesus. ³⁴Jesus said, "Father, forgive these people! They don't know what they're doing." While the crowd stood there watching Jesus, the soldiers gambled for his clothes. The leaders insulted him by saying, "He saved others. Now he should save himself, if he really is God's chosen Messiah!" ³⁶ The soldiers made fun of Jesus and brought him some wine. ³⁷ They said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!" ³⁸ Above him was a sign that said, "This is the King of the Jews." ³⁹ One of the criminals hanging there also insulted Jesus by saying, "Aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself and save us!" ⁴⁰ But the other criminal told the first one off, "Don't you fear God? Aren't you getting the same punishment as this man? ⁴¹ We got what was coming to us, but he didn't do anything wrong." ⁴² Then he said to Jesus, "Remember me when you come into power!"

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.