Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - Matthew 27:49 - 27:49
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Whether Elijah cometh to save him (ei erchetai Eleias sōsōn auton). The excuse had a pious sound as they misunderstood the words of Jesus in his outcry of soul anguish. We have here one of the rare instances (sōsōn) of the future participle to express purpose in the N.T. though a common Greek idiom. Some ancient MSS. add here what is genuine in Joh 19:34, but what makes complete wreck of the context for in Mat 27:50 Jesus cried with a loud voice and was not yet dead in Mat 27:49. It was a crass mechanical copying by some scribe from Joh 19:34. See full discussion in my Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the N.T.