Mateus 27:44

The insurrectionists crucified with Jesus joined the others who mocked Him (cf. Isaiah 53:12). Matthew did not record that anyone spoke in His defense.

This section presents many different groups and individuals mocking Jesus: the Roman soldiers, the mob, the Jewish leaders, and the insurrectionists. The picture is of the Suffering Servant totally forsaken, misunderstood, and rejected by everyone. Yet through all this, Jesus fulfilled the prophecies about Messiah.

"As the leaders see it, Jesus threatens the overthrow of law and tradition and the destruction of the nation (Matthew 12:1-14; Matthew 15:12; Matthew 21:43). In claiming to be the Son of God and the decisive figure in the history of salvation [cf. Matthew 21:33-42; Matthew 26:63-64], Jesus makes himself guilty of blasphemy against God and is deserving of death (Matthew 26:65-66). Accordingly, in effecting the death of Jesus, the leaders understand themselves to be purging Israel of the error with which a false messiah would pervert the nation (Matthew 27:63-64). The irony, however, is that in abjectly repudiating Jesus, the leaders achieve the opposite of what they had intended: far from purging Israel from error, they plunge it into fatal error, for they make both themselves and the people responsible for the death of the one who is in fact the Son of God and through whom God proffers salvation to Israel; unwittingly, therefore, the leaders make themselves responsible for Israel’s [temporary] loss of its privileged place among the nations as God’s chosen people (Matthew 15:13-14; Matthew 21:37-43; Matthew 22:7; Matthew 27:20-25)." [Note: Kingsbury, Matthew as . . ., p. 162.]