Matthew Chapter 27 verse 49 Holy Bible
And the rest said, Let be; let us see whether Elijah cometh to save him.
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And the rest said, Let him be; let us see if Elijah will come to his help.
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But the rest said, Let be; let us see if Elias comes to save him.
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The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
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The rest said, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to save him."
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but the rest said, `Let alone, let us see if Elijah doth come -- about to save him.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 49. - The rest [but the rest] said, Let be (ἄφες). This is a common expression, meaning, "Stand off!" "Be quiet!" "Soft!" The bystanders addressed the person who had presented the drink. In St. Mark the verb is in the plural, ἄφετε, that is, the giver of the drink calls upon the others to keep quiet and wait. Let as see whether Elias will come (ἔρχεται, cometh, is coming). They speak in a kind of superstitious mockery, half deriding and half believing in the possible appearance of the great prophet. Between this verse and the following, the Sinaitic, Vatican, and some other manuscripts, together with some few versions, insert a passage borrowed from John 19:34, "And another taking a spear pierced his side, and there came out water and blood." This evident interpolation has been introduced by a scribe, who deemed it expedient to rectify an omission on St. Matthew's part, and clumsily inserted it in a wrong place. It is to be rejected, not only on critical, but on historical and theological grounds, seeing that it makes the piercing of the side to precede Christ's death, and conveys the impression that it was this spear wound that cut short his life.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(49) Let us see whether Elias will come.--Here again we have eager expectation rather than derision. Was the "great and dreadful day" (Malachi 4:5) about to burst on them? Would the long-expected prophet at last appear? The sponge and vinegar would seem to minds thus on the stretch an unworthy interruption of the catastrophe of the great drama of which they were spectators.
