πέποιθεν κ.τ.λ. See Psalms 22:8 [LXX. Matthew 21:9]: ἤλπισεν ἐπὶ Κύριον, ῥυσάσθω αὐτὸν σωσάτω αὐτὸν ὅτι θέλει αὐτόν. The chief priests unconsciously apply to the true Messiah the very words of a Messianic psalm.

εἰ θέλει αὐτόν. A late construction frequent in LXX. Cp. the quotation chs. Matthew 9:13 and Matthew 12:7 : ἔλεον θέλω καὶ οὐ θυσίαν (Hosea 6:6). On the still more unclassical idiom, θέλων ἐν ταπεινοφροσύνῃ, Colossians 2:18, see Bp. Lightfoot ad loc.

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