Psalm 22:7-8   
The mocking crowds
     Following on from the previous, incredible, verse we now have described for us the very obvious rejection of Jesus by the crowds and onlookers who witnessed His crucifixion. In fact, that rejection extended to the vast crowds who had followed Him for three years, hanging on His every word and grabbing every opportunity to benefit from His miraculous powers. Where are they now, as He hangs on the stark Roman crucifix? Matthew 27:39-44 describes the scene; “Those who passed by hurled insults at Him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked Him. “He saved others,” they said, “Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him. He trusts in God. Let God rescue Him now if He wants Him, for He said, “I am the Son of God.” In the same way the rebels who were crucified with Him also heaped insults on Him.”
This is complete rejection by Judaism. The passers-by, the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders, and the criminals hanging beside Him all mocked and scoffed and poured scorn on His claims to be God. All they saw was the battered corpse of a humble Northern Galilean Rabbi whose popularity had peaked and who was now minutes away from a criminal’s death. This was no God, this was a fraudster, a con-man, one whose fine words had come back to haunt Him!  How this must have hurt the Lord Jesus, He had no means to fight back, and so He must bear their insults. Why even most of His disciples had deserted Him. He was alone!
What is most extraordinary is that David was able to accurately capture, 1,000 years before Christ and almost to the word, the taunts, the accusations and the mood of that hostile mob that surrounded the cross of Jesus Christ. This precise detail adds much weight to the argument that the king priest of Israel was not so much describing his own circumstances but prophetically anticipating events that would unfold when Messiah came. That is why we must NOT take David’s Psalms lightly; he saw and understood the spiritual nature of the war and the activities of God in this world, in a way no one else was ever able to do. 

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