Matthew 27:43
Good News Translation
He trusts in God and claims to be God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to save him now!"

New Revised Standard Version
He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he wants to; for he said, ‘I am God’s Son.’”

Contemporary English Version
He trusted God, so let God save him, if he wants to. He even said he was God's Son."

New American Bible
He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. For he said: I am the Son of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. For he said: I am the Son of God.

trusted.

Psalm 3:2 Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.

Psalm 14:6 For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope.

Psalm 22:8 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.

Psalm 42:10 Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God?

Psalm 71:11 Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

Isaiah 36:15,18 And let not Ezechias make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians. . . .

Isaiah 37:10 Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.

I am.

Matthew 27:40 And saying: Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three days dost rebuild it: save thy own self. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

John 3:16,17 For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. . . .

John 5:17-25 But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work. . . .

John 10:30,36 I and the Father are one. . . .

John 19:7 The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

Context
The Crucifixion
42He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross: and we will believe him. 43He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. For he said: I am the Son of God. 44And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with him reproached him with.…
Cross References
Psalm 22:8
He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.

Matthew 27:54
Now the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God.

Luke 23:35
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.

Luke 23:37
And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

Matthew 27:42
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