John Trapp on Matthew 27:39

Verse 39. Reviled him, wagging their heads] God took notice of Cains frowns, Gen. 4. 6. Miriams mutterings, Numb. 12. 2. these mens noddings, Rabshakeh's lofty looks, Isa. 37. 23. [illegible: 1 word] lowrings, Gen. 31. 2. and sets them upon record. He is jealous for Ierusalem with a great jealousie. Zac. 1. 14. (and jealousie is very wakeful, hardly shall the sly paramour avoid the husbands eye) if he see any indignity offered to his beloved spouse, he will arise and play Phineas his part, as that Martyr said. The virgin daughter of Sion, though she be but a virgin, hath a champion that will not see nor [illegible: 1 word] her to be abused, Isa. 37. 22. See how he revileth her [illegible: 1 word], Isa. 57. 3, 4. But draw neer hither, ye sons of the [illegible: 1 word], the seed of the adulierer and the whore, Against whom do ye sport your selves? Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falshood? Yea he giveth encouragement to his Spouse, in an holy scorn to despise and derideIsa. 37. 22, 23. her deriders, shaking her head at them, [illegible: 1 word] they do at her, and saying, Whom hast thou [illegible: 1 word] hed and blasphemed? &c. q d. Dost thou know what thou hast done? &c.