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21 Yea,
they opened their mouth [peh] wide [rachab] against me,
and said ['amar], Aha [heach], aha [heach], our eye [`ayin] hath seen [ra'ah] it. KJV-Interlinear
21 They
open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!”
ESV
Gloating deceivers, boasters, they who wink the eye, hate without cause, make fun, presume they are the wiser.
And this is what they did against Jesus, who is the Christ, the unique God/man of all that is, omniscient, omnipotent, sovereign over all that exists, creator of all that exists. And here are people, who know virtually nothing by comparison, have done nothing by comparison, having phenomenal limitations as is the nature of humanity, making fun of Jesus.
Aha, we have seen your fall from grace, your downfall. Once the speaker to large crowds, a doer of miracles, and now a convicted criminal. And so the mocking goes.
But that nonsense is not unique to those days of long ago, it still exists even today, where most of the world ignores Jesus altogether, and most Christians, do not take His mandates seriously, having more important things to do with their time.
And yet, it is the Bible that is the mind of Christ, and to learn Christ you have to learn the Bible, which seems to be the biggest barrier in the minds of most believers, unfortunately.
Simply looking at history, one should know that we are not here for a very long time. That our time begins and our time ends, and then we are faced with eternity. This world is the training ground and the Bible is the training manual, to prepare us for eternity. But who bothers?
And so it goes. Some mocked by means of verbal comment, while others mock by means of indifference. What is the difference?
