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Verse 47. _THIS_ MAN _CALLETH FOR ELIAS._] Probably these were
_Hellenistic_ Jews, who did not fully understand the meaning of our
Lord's words. Elijah was daily expected to appear as the forerunner...
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THIS MAN CALLETH FOR ELIAS - This was done purposely to deride him and
his pretensions to be the Messiah. The words “Eli, Eli,” they
might easily pretend that they understood to mean Elias, or so perv...
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CHAPTER 27
1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of
Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The
Awful Choice....
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THE DEATH OF JESUS (Mark 15:33 *, Luke 23:44).
Matthew 27:48 f. is to be preferred to Mark 15:36. vv....
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From twelve o'clock midday darkness came over the earth until three
o'clock in the afternoon. About three o'clock in the afternoon Jesus
cried with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" (that is...
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THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew
27:11-26)...
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ELIAS. Greek for Elijah. Mistaken by the hearers for the Hebrew (or
Aramaic) _'eliy-yah._...
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The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus
Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30.
St Mark's account differs little from St Matthew's. St Luke names the
mockery of the soldiers and the words of the rob...
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_This man calleth for Elias_ This was probably spoken in pure mockery,
not in a real belief that Jesus expected the personal reappearance of
Elijah....
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THE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS
Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30
St Mark’s account differs little from St Matthew’s. St Luke names
the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the robbe...
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ἩΛΊΑΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. This was probably spoken in pure mockery, not in
a real belief that Jesus expected the personal reappearance of Elijah,
Wetstein notes that there were tales current among the Jews of the...
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Ver 45. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land
unto the ninth hour. 46. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a
loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to s...
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_JESUS' DEATH AND BURIAL MATTHEW 27:32-66:_ The power of the cross
makes salvation possible. The sign over His head read, "This is Jesus
the King of the Jews." He is far more though, "Now to the King...
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ΈΣΤΗΚΌΤΩΝ _perf. act. part._
Ο/ΤΓΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G2476) стоять,
ΆΚΟΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΑΚΟΎΩ (G191)
слышать,
ΦΩΝΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΦΩΝΈΩ (G5455) звать....
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THIS MAN CALLETH FOR ELIAS— Though Jesus spoke in the vulgar
dialect, some of the people present did not understand him; for they
fancied that he called upon the prophet Elijah to help him. Hence some...
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DARKNESS AND DEJECTION
TEXT: 27:45-50
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until
the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud
voice, saying, Eli, Eli...
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They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had
tasted thereof he would not drink They gave him vinegar to drink
mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drin...
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29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3.
30 See Isa_50:6.
31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10.
31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being
invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
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CALLETH FOR ELIAS] RV 'calleth Elijah.' 'No Jew could have mistaken
_Eli_ for the name of Elijah, nor yet misinterpreted a quotation of
Psalms 22:1 as a call for the prophet' (Edersheim). 'The Jews sa...
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BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION
1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 :
see on Jn)....
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 27
JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10
V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the
other leaders decided that Jesus...
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THIS MAN CALLETH FOR ELIAS. — There is no ground for looking on this
as a wilful, derisive misinterpretation. The words may have been
imperfectly understood, or some of those who listened may have bee...
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Chapter 19
The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1
WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our
Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
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_Darkness without and within_ (Mark 15:33-36; Luke 23:44-46)....
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τινὲς δὲ : not Roman soldiers, for they knew nothing about
Elias; might be Hellenistic Jews who did not understand Hebrew or
Aramaean (Grotius); more probably heartless persons who only affected
to mi...
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THE BROKEN HEART AND THE RENT VEIL
Matthew 27:45-56
With hushed hearts we stand in the presence of “that sight.” It is
the tragedy of time; the one supreme act of self-surrender; the unique
unapproac...
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The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect.
This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture
of Judas in his remorse is very terrible.
Pilate stands out as...
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Some of them that stood there, when they heard [that], said, This
[man] calleth for (p) Elias.
(p) They allude to Elias' name, not because they did not understand
what he said, but because of a profa...
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This man calleth for Elias. St. Jerome thinks these might be some of
the Roman soldiers, who understood not Syriac, but who had heard of
the prophet Elias. (Witham) --- But if we understand it of the...
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JESUS EXPIRES AMID THE DARKNESS
Luke 23:44-46; John 19:28-30; Mark 15:33-37; Matthew 27:45-50. “ And
from the s
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"And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him
they compelled to bear his cross. (33) And when they were come unto a
place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, ...
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We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem,
traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once
been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
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47._He calleth Elijah. _Those who consider this as spoken by the
soldiers, ignorant and unskilled in the Syriac language, and
unacquainted with the Jewish religion, and who imagine that the
soldiers b...
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After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people
deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His
disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself,
havin...
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SOME OF THEM THAT STOOD THERE,.... Near the cross, looking on, and
mocking at him,
WHEN THEY HEARD THAT; the words, "Eli, Eli", spoken by Christ,
SAID, THIS MAN CALLETH FOR ELIAS. These could not be...
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Some of them that stood there, when they heard _that_, said, This
_man_ calleth for Elias.
Ver. 47. _This man calleth for Elias_] A malicious mistake, a
devilish sarcasm. While darkness was upon them...
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_Some said, This man calleth for Elias_ These must have been some of
the strangers, of whom there was always a great concourse at the
passover, who did not understand the dialect then spoken in Jerusa...
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SOME OF THEM THAT STOOD THERE, WHEN THEY HEARD THAT, SAID, THIS MAN
CALLETH FOR ELIAS....
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The last hours of suffering:...
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All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the
Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be
put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
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45-50 During the three hours which the darkness continued, Jesus was
in agony, wrestling with the powers of darkness, and suffering his
Father's displeasure against the sin of man, for which he was n...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:50"....
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‘And some of those who were stood there, when they heard it, said,
“This man is calling Elijah.” And immediately one of them ran, and
took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, a...
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DIVINE VINDICATION. JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD (27:45-54).
By now Jesus had been on the cross about three hours, and around noon
an extraordinary event took place. For over the whole land there came
gros...
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THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54).
In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the
moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as
‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
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Matthew 27:47. THIS MAN CALLETH ELIJAH. The resemblance between the
word ‘Eli' and the name Elijah is very close in the original. There
is here an allusion to the belief that Elijah would come before...
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This section describes the _central fact of the world's history_. The
accounts of the four Evangelists agree perfectly as to the main
points; but each mentions circumstances omitted by the others. Mat...
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Matthew 27:26
_(with Mark 15:15)_
Christ on the Cross.
Christ on the Cross is our subject. You know His history, And when you
read, "The people stood beholding" you will be ready to add, "And no
won...
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We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate.
Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto
the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable
pri...
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Matthew 27:32. _And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene,
Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross._
Perhaps they were afraid that Christ would die from exhaustion; so
they compell...
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Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the
common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And
they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
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Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the
common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And
they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they...
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Our Lord was brought before the Roman governor Pilate. He was anxious
to let Jesus go; but he was a weak-minded man, easily swayed by the
noisy cry of the people, prompted by the chief priests and eld...
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CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released
in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing
of the tomb.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
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The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of
our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the
treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
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HE IS CALLING FOR ELIJAH. This is probably a deliberate
misunderstanding. The Jews expected Elijah to come before the Messiah....
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:47 In Aramaic, Jesus’ call to God
(“Eli, Eli”) sounds similar to the Hebrew name for ELIJAH.
Bystanders misunderstand him as calling for the prophet....
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:45 After being on the cross for about six
hours (compare v. Matthew 27:45 with Mark 15:25
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Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke
23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 27:45. FROM THE SIXTH HOUR.—The first three Gospels agree as
to time and fact. Assuming them to follow the usual Jewish reckoning
(as in Acts 2:15; Acts 3:1;...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2
_Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
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This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter
twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the
high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
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Malachi 4:5; Mark 15:35; Mark 15:36; Matthew 11:14...