ABSTRACT
Vossius identifies four categories of people who mocked at Jesus. In the first were those who wagged their heads and taunted him about rebuilding the Temple in three days, laughing, and urging him to come down from the Cross. The second comprises the chief priests, who scoffed, saying. In the third are the soldiers who said, 'If thou art King of the Jews, save thyself.' The final category contains one of the thieves who, in Luke 23, railed at him, 'If thou be Christ. Christ was given a crown of thorns in mockery: yet he is King indeed. Gentiles, are accustomed to laugh at Christians, 'who place their trust in the Crucified'. Yet if 'madman laughs at madman', laughter - past as well as present and future - touches all folk everywhere. The laughter directed at Christ on the Cross is deeply disturbing because it involves.
