John Trapp on Matthew 27:41

Verse 41. Likewise also the chief Priests] Sick of an [non-Latin text not transcribed] the devils disease, they petulantly insult over our dying Saviour, with their Satanicall sarcasmes: which he answereth with silence, and by a brave composednesse sets himself above the slight of the injurious claw. Facile est in me dicere, cum non sim responsurus, saith one. It is as impossible to avoid, as necessary to contemn the lash of leud tongues, bitter tongues, and scurrilous invectives. Those ears that were wont to hear nothing but Angelicall hymnes, are here filled with them, and he replyes not. Princes use not to chide when Embassadours offer them undecencies, but deny them audience.