2 Kings 2:11
2:11 As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.
Matthew 27:29-31
27:29 and after braiding
a crown of thorns,
they put it on his head. They
put a staff
in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him:
“Hail, king of the Jews!”
27:30 They
spat on him and took the staff
and struck him repeatedly
on the head.
27:31 When
they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then
they led him away to crucify him.
Matthew 27:40-43
27:40 and saying, “You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself!
If you are God’s Son, come down
from the cross!”
27:41 In
the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law
and elders
– were mocking him:
27:42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down
now from the cross, we will believe in him!
27:43 H
e trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”