{The people stood beholding} (hist(886b)ei). Past perfect
active of hist(886d)i, intransitive and like imperfect. A graphic
picture of the dazed multitude, some of whom may have been in the
Triumphal Entry on Sunday morning. {Scoffed} (exemukt(8872)izon).
Imperfect active, perhaps inchoative, began to turn up (out,
ex) at the dying Christ. The language comes from  Ps 22:7 .
{The Christ of God} (ho Christos tou theou). He had claimed to
be just this ( 22:67,70 ). The sarcastic sneer (he saved others;
let him save others, for himself he cannot save) is in  Mr 15:31  Mt 27:42 . Luke alone gives the contemptuous use of houtos
(this fellow) and the fling in "the elect" (ho eklektos). These
rulers were having their day at last.