Matthew 27:42

ἄλλους ἔσωσεν, etc., He saved others, Himself He cannot save. Both facts; the former they can now afford to admit, and they do so all the more readily that it serves as a foil to the other fact patent to everybody. βασιλεὺς Ἰ. Messianic King the claim involved in the confession before the Sanhedrim, refuted by the cross, for who could believe that Messiah would be crucified? καταβάτω νῦν, etc.: yet let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe on Him at once. These pious scoffers profess their readiness to accept descent from the cross as the conclusive sign from heaven they had always been asking for.