Mark 15:29 → Psalm 22:7

As Jesus hangs on the cross, Mark reports the scorn of the crowd in the very words of David's lament: "those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads" (Mark 15:29) takes up Psalm 22:7 — "All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads." The shaking of the head (Hebrew yāníʿû rōʾš; Greek kinountes tas kephalas) is not an incidental gesture but the set posture of contempt the Psalmist endured, now re-enacted at Golgotha. Mark, like Matthew (27:39), uses no citation formula; he narrates the passion in the Psalm's language, so that a reader steeped in the Psalter hears the righteous sufferer's prayer rising from Calvary — the "Synoptics narrate, John names" pattern of the network. This is one strand in the dense Psalm-22 fabric woven through Mark's passion: the cry of dereliction (22:1 at Mark 15:34), the divided garments (22:18 at 15:24), and now the head-wagging mockery (22:7 at 15:29). The Connection Method is Promise-Fulfillment, not bare analogy: Psalm 22 is the lament of the LORD's anointed righteous sufferer, and the NT presents its portrait of mockery-then-vindication as finding its truest and appointed voice in Christ — David is not held up as a moral example to imitate, but the affliction of God's righteous One reaches here its destined fulfillment. The telos: the One whom the passers-by dismissed with a shake of the head is the very King whose lament turns, within the same Psalm, to praise "in the great assembly" (22:25) and the worship of "all the ends of the earth" (22:27). To behold the mocked Christ here is to see the despised One who is supremely desirable — the rejected sufferer whose vindication draws the nations to worship.