What Does Matthew 27:44 Mean in the King James?

The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

Matthew 27:44 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The cross exposes how shared pain can still join a chorus of contempt instead of creating solidarity.

THE MEANING

Even those crucified beside Jesus join the reproach against him. Shared suffering does not by itself make people allies; the insult reaches him from people who know the same exposed pain.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Anyone who suffers what I suffer will naturally stand with me.

THE ROOT

ὠνείδιζον

ōneidizon

GROWS FROM

ὀνειδ-

reproach, disgrace

“cast the same in his teeth” in this verse is ōneidizon. The Greek verb means to reproach or taunt, and its word family holds the insult together with the disgrace it casts on someone. The verse shows the condemned beside Jesus adding their voices to that public shaming.

ALSO GROWS

óneidos: reproach, disgrace

ὄνειδος

This noun names the disgrace carried by the insult in the verse.

oneidismos: reproach, reviling

ὀνειδισμός

This branch names reproach as an attack a person can bear, extending the same word-family beyond the act of taunting.

THE PATTERN

A person under suffering can become the target of public reproach, even when others recognize that same suffering.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Psalm 22:7 · KJVThe exposed sufferer becomes the focus of visible, communal contempt.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5:11 · KJVReproach is named as one way hostility meets a person.

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

1 Peter 4:14 · KJVThe same pattern appears when reproach is directed at people because of their connection to Christ.

THE THREAD

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5:11 · KJV

The word translated “revile” belongs to the same Greek root family as the reproach in this verse. Here Jesus names that hostility as something a person may meet for his sake; the cross shows it reaching him even from those suffering beside him.

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