Luke Chapter 23 verse 48 Holy Bible
And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts.
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And all the people who had come together to see it, when they saw the things which were done, went back again making signs of grief.
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And all the crowds who had come together to that sight, having seen the things that took place, returned, beating [their] breasts.
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And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
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All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
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and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 48. - And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned. We must remember that the condemnation of the Christ was no spontaneous deed of the multitude. Their miserable share in the act was suggested to them by their rulers. In the multitude very quickly revulsion of feeling sets in, and they often regret the past with a bitter, useless regret. The wave of sorrow which seems to have swept across those wavering, unstable hearts, which induced them to smite their breasts in idle regret, was a dim and shadowy rehearsal of the mighty sorrow and true penitence which will one day, as their prophet told them, be the blessed lot of the once-loved people when "they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son" (Zechariah 12:10).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(48) To that sight.--The word is used by St. Luke-only in the New Testament, and exactly expresses the purpose of those who had come as to gaze on a "spectacle." These had probably taken little or no part in the insults and taunts of the priests, and now they went away awed, partly by the darkness, partly by the solemn majesty of that awful death.Smote their breasts, and returned.--Better, returned, smiting their breasts. Both the verb and participle imply continuous action.
