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A Deliberate Mockery
While a few commentators suggest the crowd might have honestly misheard Jesus, the overwhelming consensus (from scholars like Calvin, Spurgeon, and Gill) is that this was a deliberate and cruel mockery. The bystanders likely knew the difference between “Eli” (My God) and “Elias” (Elijah). They twisted Jesus' cry of anguish to ridicule His messianic claims, suggesting that since God wouldn't help Him, He was desperately calling for the prophet Elijah to come and save Him.
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Albert Barnes
On Matthew 27:47
18th Century
Theologian
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 ea…
Charles Spurgeon
On Matthew 27:45–54
19th Century
Preacher
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, sayin…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Matthew 27:47
According to 2 Kings 2:1–12, Elijah did not die but was taken alive to heaven in a whirlwind. Some Jewish tradition, perhaps as old as …
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John Calvin
On Matthew 27:47
16th Century
Theologian
He calls Elijah. Those who consider this as spoken by the soldiers, ignorant and unskilled in the Syriac language, and unacquainted with t…
John Gill
On Matthew 27:47
17th Century
Pastor
Some of them that stood there: Near the cross, looking on, and mocking at him.
when they heard that
Matthew Henry
On Matthew 27:45–50
17th Century
Minister
During the three hours that the darkness continued, Jesus was in agony, wrestling with the powers of darkness and suffering His Father's displeasur…
Thomas Aquinas
On Matthew 27:27–66
13th Century
Philosopher
After relating His condemnation, His Passion and death are treated here; and secondly, His burial is treated, where it is said, And whe…