Good News Translation makes So also clear with “In the same way.”

By mentioning the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, Matthew intends to show that all the leaders of the Jews had rejected Jesus (see verses 22, 25).

Mocked (Good News Translation “made fun of”) translates the same verb used in verses 29 and 31; elsewhere it is used in 2.16 and 20.19.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .