Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Matthew 27:40
Thou that destroyest the temple (RV 'sanctuary')] They called upon Him to perform what He was actually about to do, for 'the temple' was His body: see John 2:21.
Thou that destroyest the temple (RV 'sanctuary')] They called upon Him to perform what He was actually about to do, for 'the temple' was His body: see John 2:21.
MATTHEW 27:40 @kai,# (3) {C} On the one hand, kai, may have been omitted due to confusion with the first syllable of the following word; on the other hand, it may have been inserted by those who took...
Verse 40. _THOU THAT DESTROYEST_] Who didst pretend that thou couldst have destroyed the temple, and built it up again in three days. This malicious torturing of our Lord's words has been noticed befo...
THOU THAT DESTROYEST THE TEMPLE ... - Meaning, Thou that didst boast that thou couldst do it. This was one of the things that had been falsely charged on him. It was intended for painful sarcasm and d...
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
THE CRUCIFIXION (Mark 15:21 *, Luke 23:26). Mt. still follows Mk. clearly, the chief alterations being (_a)_ gall (Matthew 27:34) for myrrh (this is due to...
As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man, Simon by name, and they impressed him into their service, to bear Jesus' Cross. When they had come to the place which is called Golgotha (which means...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
THOU THAT, &C. Perverting the Lord's words (John 2:19). Compare Matthew 6:18. THE SON OF GOD. App-98. FROM. off. Greek. _apo._ App-104. Same as in _w._ 42, 45, 55, 64....
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30. St Mark's account differs little from St Matthew's. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the rob...
_Thou that destroyest the temple_ This is the mockery of the Jewish populace, who have caught up the charges brought against Jesus before the Sanhedrin. The taunts of the soldiers are named by St Luke...
THE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30 St Mark’s account differs little from St Matthew’s. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the robbe...
Ὁ ΚΑΤΑΛΎΩΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. This is the mockery of the Jewish populace, who have caught up the charges brought against Jesus before the Sanhedrin. The taunts of the soldiers are named by St Luke alone: ‘If thou...
Ver 39. And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their beads, 40. And saying, "Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down fr...
_JESUS' DEATH AND BURIAL MATTHEW 27:32-66:_ The power of the cross makes salvation possible. The sign over His head read, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." He is far more though, "Now to the King...
ΚΑΤΑΛΎΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΑΤΑΛΎΩ (G2647) разрушать, ΟΊΚΟΔΟΜΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΟΊΚΟΔΟΜΈΩ (G3618) строить. Part, в роли _subst. Praes._, возможно, указывает на конативность, интенсификаци...
DISCOURSE: 1410 THE MOCKING OF CHRIST UPON THE CROSS Matthew 27:38. Then were there two thieves crucified with him; one on the right hand, and another on the left. And they that passed by reviled him,...
AND THEY THAT PASSED BY REVILED— The common people whom the priests had incensed against our Lord by the malicious lies which they spread concerning him, and which they pretended to found on the evide...
REVILING ABUSE AND SHAME HEAPED UPON JESUS TEXT: 27:38-44 38 Then are there crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand and one on the left. 39 And they that passed by railed on him, waggin...
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof he would not drink They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drin...
29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3. 30 See Isa_50:6. 31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10. 31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
27:40 temple (f-7) _ Naos_ . so ver. 51....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
THOU THAT DESTROYEST THE TEMPLE. — Our Lord had not been formally condemned on this charge, the evidence being insufficient, but it had clearly impressed itself on the minds of the people, and was pro...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
_Taunts of spectators_ (Mark 15:29-32; Luke 23:35-37; Luke 23:39). The last drop in Christ's bitter cup. To us it may seem incredible that even His worst enemies could be guilty of anything so brutal...
ὁ καταλύων (_cf._ ἡ ἀποκτείνουσα, Matthew 23:37), this and the other taunts seem to be echoes of words said to or about Jesus at the trial, of which a report has already gone abroad among the populace...
“WHERE THEY CRUCIFIED HIM” Matthew 27:32-44 He will not drink what would dull His keen sense of the momentous issues of the Cross. Those taunts were true. None who save themselves can save others. Th...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
If thou be the Son of God. Behold these children of Satan, how they imitate the language of their father. That wicked fiend, tempting our divine Saviour, exclaimed, "if thou be the Son of God, cast th...
THEY REVILE HIM ON THE CROSS Mark 15:29-32; Luke 23:35-43; Matthew 27:39-44. “ _And passing by_, _they continued to blaspheme Him_, _wagging their heads_, _and saying_, Thou that des
"And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. (33) And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, ...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
40._Thou who destroyedst the temple. _They charge Christ with teaching falsehood, because, now that it is called for, he does not actually display the power to which he laid claim. But if their unbrid...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
AND SAYING, THOU THAT DESTROYEST THE TEMPLE,.... The Vulgate Latin, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel, read, "the temple of God"; and add "ah!" here, as in Mark 15:29, and so Beza says it is read in a certa...
And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest _it_ in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. Ver. 40. _And saying, Thou that, &c._] Dogs will be ba...
_They that passed by reviled him_, &c. As it was a great aggravation of our Lord's sufferings that he was crucified along with two thieves, and in the middle of them, as though he had been the chief m...
DESTROYED THE TEMPLE; their false accusation, Matthew 26:61; John 2:19-21....
The taunts of the people:...
AND SAYING, THOU THAT DESTROYEST THE TEMPLE, AND BUILDEST IT IN THREE DAYS, SAVE THYSELF. If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross....
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
35-44 It was usual to put shame upon malefactors, by a writing to notify the crime for which they suffered. So they set up one over Christ's head. This they designed for his reproach, but God so over...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:44"....
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate Others said mocking: Others he saved, others he cured, and he healed the sick, the paralytic, the lepers, the demoniacs, the blind, the lame, the dead; and hi...
Matthew 27:40 and G2532 saying G3004 (G5723) destroy G2647 (G5723) temple G3485 and G2532 build G3618 ...
‘And those who passed by railed on him (literally ‘were blaspheming Him'), wagging their heads, and saying, “You who will destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the...
THE OPEN MOCKERY OF THE SON OF GOD (27:38-44). Having been mocked by the soldiers prior to His crucifixion Jesus must now face the mockery of His own nation. It begins with ‘those who pass by', it con...
THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54). In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as ‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
This section describes the _central fact of the world's history_. The accounts of the four Evangelists agree perfectly as to the main points; but each mentions circumstances omitted by the others. Mat...
Matthew 27:40. THOU THAT DESTROYEST THE TEMPLE, etc. The testimony before the Sanhedrin (chap. Matthew 26:61) was taken up by the citizens of Jerusalem, who were proud of their temple. Such taunting o...
IF THOU ART THE SON OF GOD (ε υιος ε του θεου). More exactly, "If thou art a son of God," the very language of the devil to Jesus (Matthew 4:3) in the early temptations, now hurled at Jesus under th...
Matthew 27:26 _(with Mark 15:15)_ Christ on the Cross. Christ on the Cross is our subject. You know His history, And when you read, "The people stood beholding" you will be ready to add, "And no won...
Matthew 27:39 The First Effect of the Crucifixion. Let us I. Identify the persons who uttered this taunt. They were, I think, not like the other people present, there on purpose for the show; no idl...
Matthew 27:40 The First Prayer to the Crucified One. I. Think of the speech as spoken by those who were passing by. Their complete phrase was, "If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross." I...
Matthew 27:33. _And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not...
Matthew 27:32. _And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross._ Perhaps they were afraid that Christ would die from exhaustion; so they compell...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they...
Our Lord was brought before the Roman governor Pilate. He was anxious to let Jesus go; but he was a weak-minded man, easily swayed by the noisy cry of the people, prompted by the chief priests and eld...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
YOU WERE GOING TO TEAR DOWN THE TEMPLE. What Jesus had prophesied was now taking place (John 2:19-22). If YOU ARE GOD'S SON. That is: "What could God's Son be doing on a cross?...
_He saved others; Himself lie cannot save._ HE SAVED OTHERS, HIMSELF HE CANNOT SAVE I. The incontestible fact-“He saved others.” Let us bring forth witnesses: Angels, healed men and women. II. Himse...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:39 Since Hebrews 13:12 says that Jesus was crucified “outside the [city] gate,” THOSE WHO PASSED BY probably included many pilgrims
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:27 As he tells of the crucifixion, Matthew focuses on the fulfillment of OT prophecies about the suffering servant (Isaiah 42:1;...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:35. THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED, ETC.—Omitted in R.V. It ought not to be questioned that the words were interpolated by the copyists, from John 19:24 (_Scrivener_). Matthew...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
Genesis 37:19; Genesis 37:20; John 2:19; Luke 14:29; Luke 14:30;...