◄ Matthew 27:47 ►
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Good News Translation
Some of the people standing there heard him and said, "He is calling for Elijah!"

New Revised Standard Version
When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “This man is calling for Elijah.”

Contemporary English Version
Some of the people standing there heard Jesus and said, "He's calling for Elijah."

New American Bible
Some of the bystanders who heard it said, “This one is calling for Elijah.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And some that stood there and heard said: This man calleth Elias.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And some that stood there and heard said: This man calleth Elias.

This.

Matthew 11:14 And if you will receive it, he is Elias that is to come.

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

Mark 15:35,36 And some of the standers by hearing, said: Behold he calleth Elias. . . .

Context
The Death of Jesus
…46And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? 47And some that stood there and heard said: This man calleth Elias. 48And immediately one of them running took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Matthew 27:48
And immediately one of them running took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink.

Matthew 27:46
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