SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:49
Y los otros decían: Deja, veamos si viene Elías a librarle.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:49
Verse 49. After this verse, BCL and five others add, Another, taking a spear, pierced his side, and there came out blood and water. Several of the fathers add the same words here: they appear, however, to be an interpolation from John xix. 34.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 49. The rest said, let be , etc.] The others, to whom he belonged, that fetched the sponge, said to him, let him alone, keep at a distance from him, give him nothing to drink: let us see whether Elias will come to save him ; whom the Jews looked upon to be the forerunner of the Messiah, and therefore suggest, that should he come to save him, they would believe he was the Messiah; and they had a mighty notion of Elias appearing to persons frequently f1706 , and talking, and conversing with them; (see Gill on Matthew 17:3), though they did not believe he would come, and appear to Christ; for they were persons of great note for piety and learning, to whom he appeared, as they pretend, whereas they had no such opinion of him. The Ethiopic version here adds, and one took a spear and pierced his side with it, and blood and water flowed out: but this circumstance is only recorded by the Evangelist John, ( John 19:34), though Beza says the same is read here in two ancient copies.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 45-50 - During the three hours which the darkness continued, Jesus was in agony, wrestling with the powers of darkness, and suffering his Father's displeasure against the sin of man, for which he was no making his soul an offering. Never were there three such hours sinc the day God created man upon the earth, never such a dark and awfu scene; it was the turning point of that great affair, man's redemptio and salvation. Jesus uttered a complaint from Ps 22:1. Hereby he teaches of what use the word of God is to direct us in prayer, an recommends the use of Scripture expressions in prayer. The believer ma have tasted some drops of bitterness, but he can only form a very feeble idea of the greatness of Christ's sufferings. Yet, hence he learns something of the Saviour's love to sinners; hence he gets deepe conviction of the vileness and evil of sin, and of what he owes to Christ, who delivers him from the wrath to come. His enemies wickedl ridiculed his complaint. Many of the reproaches cast upon the word of God and the people of God, arise, as here, from gross mistakes. Christ just before he expired, spake in his full strength, to show that his life was not forced from him, but was freely delivered into his Father's hands. He had strength to bid defiance to the powers of death and to show that by the eternal Spirit he offered himself, being the Priest as well as the Sacrifice, he cried with a loud voice. Then he yielded up the ghost. The Son of God upon the cross, did die by the violence of the pain he was put to. His soul was separated from his body, and so his body was left really and truly dead. It was certai that Christ did die, for it was needful that he should die. He ha undertaken to make himself an offering for sin, and he did it when he willingly gave up his life.
Greek Textus Receptus
οι 3588 T-NPM δε 1161 CONJ λοιποι 3062 A-NPM ελεγον 3004 5707 V-IAI-3P αφες 863 5628 V-2AAM-2S ιδωμεν 1492 5632 V-2AAS-1P ει 1487 COND ερχεται 2064 5736 V-PNI-3S ηλιας 2243 N-NSM σωσων 4982 5694 V-FAP-NSM αυτον 846 P-ASM
Robertson's NT Word Studies
27:49 {Whether Elijah cometh to save him} (ei ercetai eleias swswn 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 (swswn) 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 verse #50 Jesus cried with a loud voice and was not yet dead in verse #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._
