Psalms 3:2

3:2 Many say about me,

“God will not deliver him.” ¹  (Selah) ² 

Psalms 71:11

71:11 They say, ³  “God has abandoned him.

Run and seize him, for there is no one who will rescue him!”

Matthew 27:41-46

27:41 In ⁴  the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law ⁵  and elders ⁶  – were mocking him: ⁷  27:42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down ⁸  now from the cross, we will believe in him! 27:43 He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now ⁹  because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!” 27:44 The ¹⁰  robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him. ¹¹ 

Jesus’ Death

27:45 Now from noon until three, ¹²  darkness came over all the land. ¹³  27:46 At ¹⁴  about three o’clock Jesus shouted with a loud voice, ¹⁵  “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ¹⁶ 

Matthew 27:63-64

27:63 and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ¹⁷  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

¹ tn Heb “there is no deliverance for him in God.”

² sn The function of the Hebrew term סֶלָה (selah), transliterated here “Selah,” is uncertain. It may be a musical direction of some kind.

³ tn Heb “saying.”

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

⁵ tn Or “with the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

⁶ tn Only “chief priests” is in the nominative case; this sentence structure attempts to capture this emphasis.

⁷ tn Grk “Mocking him, the chief priests…said.”

⁸ tn Here the aorist imperative καταβάτω (katabatw) has been translated as a conditional imperative. This fits the pattern of other conditional imperatives (imperative + καί + future indicative) outlined by ExSyn 489.

⁹ sn An allusion to Ps 22:8.

¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹¹ sn Matthew’s wording suggests that both of the criminals spoke abusively to him. If so, one of them quickly changed his attitude toward Jesus (see Luke 23:40-43).

¹² tn Grk “from the sixth hour to the ninth hour.”

¹³ sn This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15.

¹⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹⁵ tn Grk “with a loud voice, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

¹⁶ sn A quotation from Ps 22:1.

¹⁷ tn Grk “him.”