Matthew 27:40
"You who were going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
39Those who passed by reviled him, wagging their heads saying.
41In like manner the chief priests, too, with the Scribes and elders, kept taunting him.
Cross References
Matthew 4:3So the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, bid these stones to become bread."
Matthew 16:4A wicked and faithless generation is seeking a sign, but no sign shall be given it but the sign of Jonah." So he left them and went away.
Matthew 26:63But Jesus kept silence. Again the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the Living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"
Matthew 27:54When the Roman captain and the soldiers who were with him, guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were greatly terrified and said, "Certainly this man must have been God’s Son."
Luke 16:31"‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,’ said Father Abraham, ‘neither will they be persuaded if one should rise from the dead.’"
Revelation 11:10"And those who dwell on the earth are rejoicing over them, and making merry; and they will send gifts to one another; because these two prophets were a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:34-50
The Crucifixion. 33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, 34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. 35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. 36 And sitting down they watched him there; 37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS… Read the whole commentary →