He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”
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He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”
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He trusted in God let him deliver him now yf he will have him: for he sayde I am the sonne of God.
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He trusted in God, let him deliuer him nowe, if he will haue him: for he saide, I am the Sonne of God.
Cross-references (14)
Passages linked to Matthew 27:43 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 22:8 “He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
- John 10:36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
- Psalms 3:2 Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”
- Psalms 14:6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
- Psalms 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 71:11 saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
- Isaiah 36:15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’
- Isaiah 36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
- Isaiah 37:10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
- Matthew 27:40 and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
- John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- John 5:17-25 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.” For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him. “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
- John 10:30 I and the Father are one.”
- John 19:7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him…
43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Ver. 43. He trusted in God] These were cruel mockings, as those were called, Heb 11:36. Nothing troubled David more than to be hit in the teeth with his God, to have his religion laid in his dish, Psa 42:1-11; Psa 43:1-5. And it went to Job’s heart to hear his friend Eliphaz (a godly man otherwise) scoff him for his religion, Job 4:6. Is not thy fear (or thy religion) become thy folly? Zedekiah feared more to be mocked by the Jews than the Chaldees, Jer 38:9.
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Let him deliver him now] But what if he do not deliver him now, is he therefore no Son? So they would seem to argue; and so Satan would fain persuade the saints when held awhile under the cross. But the apostle assures us otherwise, Heb 12:6-8.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The thieves also,.... One or other of them, not…
The thieves also,.... One or other of them, not both; an Hebrew way of speaking, as Drusius (b) observed: so it is said of Jonah, Jon 1:5, that he was "gone down into the sides of the ship"; not into both sides, but into one or other of them: so here the thieves, one or other of them, not naming which, railed at Jesus, for it was but one of them; see Luk 23:39, unless it can be thought, as it is by some, that they both at first reviled him; but one being quickly convinced of his evil, ceased, and rebuked his fellow sufferer, confessed his, sin, bore a testimony to the innocence of Christ, and desired to be remembered by him in his kingdom. This was an aggravation of the sufferings of Christ, that he should be vilified by those,
which were crucified with him; who ought to have been, considering the condemnation they were in, and the future state they were just entering into, lamenting and confessing the sins they had been guilty of, instead of adding sin to sin, and so aggravating their condemnation. These, at least one of them,
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cast the same into his teeth; as the populace, the chief priests, Scribes, elders, and Pharisees had done; twitted him with his pretensions of being the Son of God, the Messiah, and king of Israel; and urged, that if he was, why did not he save himself, and them also?
(b) Quaest. Heb. l. 1. qu. 5.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 43. If he will have him] Or, if…
Verse 43. If he will have him] Or, if he delight in him - ει θελει αυτον. The verbs θελω and εθελω, are used by the Septuagint in more than forty places for the Hebrew חפץ chaphets, which signifies, earnestly to desire, or delight in. Now as this is a quotation from Ps 22:8, He trusted in the Lord, that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, (כי חפץ בו ki chaphets bo,) for he HATH DELIGHTED IN HIM: - ὁτι θελει αυτον, Sept. This will sufficiently vindicate the above translation; as the evangelist quotes the words from that version, with the simple change of ει, if, for ὁτι, because.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain If he will have him: literally, if he will…
If he will have him: literally, if he will him. In the style of the Scriptures, to will, is to love, or be pleased with any one; and so it is applied, Psalm xxi. 9, from whence these words are taken. See also 1 Kings xviii. 22. (Witham)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 43. Let him deliver him — Here is another…
43. Let him deliver him — Here is another argument. If God is on this man’s side he will not suffer him to be slain.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 43. He trusted in God] See Psa_22:8. The chief…
43. He trusted in God] See Psa_22:8. The chief priests unconsciously apply to the true Messiah the very words of a Messianic psalm.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (43) Let him deliver him now.—It seems at first…
(43) Let him deliver him now.—It seems at first hardly conceivable that priests and scribes could thus have quoted the very words of Psa_22:8, and so have fulfilled one of the great Messianic prophecies. But (1) we must remember that they, ignoring the idea of a suffering Christ, would not look on the Psalm as Messianic at all, and (2) that their very familiarity with the words of the Psalm would naturally bring its phraseology to their lips when occasion called for it. Only they would persuade themselves that they were right in using it, while David’s enemies were wrong.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He trusted in (epi , on) God. These scoffers…
He trusted in (epi , on) God. These scoffers cite a passage on Psa_22:8, "He trusted unto the Lord that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, seeing he delighteth in him" (Hebrew); or, according to the Septuagint, "He hoped in the Lord; let him deliver him, let him save him, because he desires (yelei) him." Let him deliver him now, if he will have him (ei yelei). Yelw is used in the Septuagint in the sense of "I love," "I wish for". (see Deu_21:14 Psa_17:1-9 Psa_40:11) But the Vulgate, by omitting the first auton , possibly takes the verb in the usual sense, Liberet nunc, si vult, eum. The Sinaitic and Vatican manuscripts and others support this reading, which is followed now by Tischendorf, and Westcott and Hort, so that the clause will run, Let him now, if he will, deliver him. But the Received Text and the Authorized Version are in closer agree ment with the original language of the psalm. For he said, I am the Son of God. Insultingly they allude to his own assertions concerning his Divine nature, implying that, were he such as he pretended to be, he would not now be dying on the shameful cross. There are wonderful coincidences in thought and language between this passage and one in the Book of Wisdom, (RAPC Wis 2:13-20) which speaks of the oppression of the righteous, e.g. "He professeth to have the knowledge of God; and he calleth himself the child of the Lord....Let us see if his words be true; and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him. For if the just man be the Son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies." The similarity of expression is to be attributed to the typical nature of the treatment of Christ, which the writer of Wisdom, with remarkable insight, thus forcibly delineated.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 43. He said, I am the Son of God.…
43. He said, I am the Son of God. It was because he said this that the Sanhedrim condemned him to death. In that he hung, seemingly helpless, on the cross, the chief priests, the very persons who voted his death, considered it demonstrated that he was not the Son of God.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
The Jewish leaders continue mocking Jesus.
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For he even said, 'I am the Son of God.'
This is a quotation within a quotation. It can be stated as an indirect quotation. AT: "For Jesus even said that he is the Son of God." (See: Quotes Within Quotes and Direct and Indirect Quotations)
Son of God
This is an important title for Jesus that describes his relationship to God. (See: Translating Son and Father)
the robbers who were crucified with him
This can be stated in active form. AT: "the robbers that the soldiers crucified with Jesus" (See: Active or Passive)
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Son of God
crucify
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