Luke 23:33

The phrase ὃν μὲν ἐκ δεξιῶν, ὃν δὲ ἐξ ἀριστερῶν employs a classical μὲν...δέ construction, a common Greek syntactic device used to indicate contrast or parallelism. Literally translated as “whom on the one hand from the right, whom on the other hand from the left,” it typically introduces two groups or actions proceeding from opposite directions. Such phrasing often appears in historiographical, military, or descriptive narrative to denote bifurcated movement or attention.