27.35 I wonder if the marginal reading is a bit like these notes: some copyist’s meditation in the margin. There would be little reason to delete an OT cross-reference from Matthew’s own pen.
27.43 Even if Jesus didn’t say this, he implied it so strongly that they heard it.
27.44 Even today many people mock God, and with patience He suffers it.
27.51 From top to bottom: heaven’s initiative. The tombs breaking open is a weird touch: together, all these phenomena seem to be saying that a cataclysmic event has occurred, and the Creation goes into spasm in reaction.
“The hopes and fears of all the years are met in him, here on the cross.” The phrase resonates from Christmas, when prophecies were fulfilled in the birth. And yet here are prophecies focused on the cross, and the saving death of Christ. “A God unlike any other.”
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