Матфея 27:40

Русский синодальный перевод

и говоря: Разрушающий храм и в три дня Созидающий! спаси Себя Самого; если Ты Сын Божий, сойди с креста.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

saying: Genesis 37:19, Genesis 37:20, Revelation 11:10

that destroyest: Matthew 26:61, Luke 14:29, Luke 14:30, John 2:19-22

If: Matthew 27:54, Matthew 4:3, Matthew 4:6, Matthew 26:63, Matthew 26:64

come: Matthew 16:4, Luke 16:31

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 2:23 - Go up Job 16:4 - shake mine Psalms 14:6 - Ye Psalms 22:7 - shake Psalms 109:25 - when they Psalms 119:42 - So shall Obadiah 1:12 - looked Matthew 12:40 - so Matthew 27:43 - I am Mark 14:57 - and bare Mark 15:29 - they Luke 2:34 - for a John 1:34 - this John 11:37 - Could Acts 4:27 - the people 2 Corinthians 1:19 - the Son

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 certain copy. They refer to the charge of the false witnesses against him, who misrepresenting his words in John 2:19, declared that he gave out that he was able to destroy the temple of Jerusalem, and rebuild it in three days time; wherefore it is added,

and buildest it in three days, save thyself. They reproach him with it, and suggest, that these were vain and empty boasts of his; for if he was able to do any thing of that kind, he need not hang upon the tree, but could easily save himself:

if thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. The Jews themselves say a that the following words were said to Jesus on the cross,

"if thou be the Son of God, why dost thou not deliver thyself out of our hands?''

As Satan before them, they put an "if" upon the sonship of Christ: and seeing his followers believed in him as the Son of God, and he had owned himself to be so before the sanhedrim, they require a sign of it by his power, and to do that which they believed no mere man in his situation could do; which shows, that they had no other notion of the Son of God, but that he was a divine person: but his sonship was not to be declared by his coming down from the cross, which he could have easily effected, but by a much greater instance of power, even by his resurrection from the dead; and no other but that sign was to be given to that wicked and perverse generation.

a Toldos Jesu, p. 17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 derision. If he could destroy the “temple,” they thought he might easily come down from the cross.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 before. Cruelty is obliged to take refuge in lies, in order to vindicate its infamous proceedings.

If thou be the Son of God — Or rather, Υἱος του Θεου A son of God, i.e. a peculiar favourite of the Most-High; not Ὁ Υἱος του Θεου, THE Son of God. "It is not to be conceived," says a learned man, "that every passenger who was going to the city had a competent knowledge of Christ's supernatural conception by the Holy Spirit, or an adequate comprehension of his character as the Messiah, and (κατ' εξοχην) THE SON OF GOD. There is not a single passiage where Jesus is designed to be pointed out as the MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD, where the article is omitted: nor, on the other hand, is this designation ever specified without the article, thus, 'Ὁ Υἱος του Θεου. See Matthew 16:16; Matthew 26:63; Matthew 28:19."