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Let God deliver Him
Psalm 22 pictures onlookers shaking their heads and sneering that the Lord should rescue the sufferer. Matthew records the same gestures and the same taunt at the cross without adding a citation formula.
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Strong allusion or echo
New TestamentMatthew 27:39-43Open this recordRead the earlier witness
7All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads. 8“He trusts in the Lord,” they say, “let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.” Read the later witness
39Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” 41In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42“He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” Why FaithGraph draws this line
Matthew 27:39-43 alludes to Psalms 22:7-8.
The mockers' shaking heads and their taunt that God should deliver Him if He delights in Him follow the wording of Psalm 22.
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