Jesus sometimes gasps in a kind of aside. It is like the sighs we make that make us human – Oh my! what on earth? You nut head!
These out loud sayings show a speaker as casual and natural.
Some of these forms of sigh, addresses show affection.
Fear not little flock
I thank thee O Father, Lord of heaven and earth
Some of them show frustration
Children! Have ye any meat?
faithless and perverse generation!
fools and slow of heart to believe
O thou of little faith
O ye faithless generation
O ye of little faith
Some are sarcastic
And thou Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven
O Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets
Woe unto you also ye lawyers!
Woe unto you that are rich
Ye hypocrites
Some of them are insult.
generation of vipers!
Get thee behind me Satan!
He shall say, Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity
Woe to that man by whom the offence cometh
Woe unto the world because of offences
Woe unto thee Chorazin! Woe unto thee Bethsaida!
Ye serpents