Charles Spurgeon Commentary Mark 15:35

"And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elijah." — Mark 15:35 (ASV)

And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

Alas! This was either a cruel jest upon our Saviour's prayer, or an utter misapprehension of it.

And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

Did they misunderstand his bitter cry of woe? Could they mistake what he meant? Was it not, on the part of these people that stood by, a willful wicked witticism upon what our Lord Jesus had said? We fear that it was so.