Mark 15:35

35 And some of the bystanders, [when they] heard [it], said, "Behold, he is summoning Elijah!"

Mark 15:35 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:35

And some of them that stood by
The cross:

when they heard [it];
the loud voice of Jesus, and the words he uttered:

said, behold he calleth Elias;
whom they ignorantly, or wilfully took for Eloi; (See Gill on Matthew 27:47).

Mark 15:35 In-Context

33 And [when] the sixth hour came, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" (which is translated, "My God, my God, {why} have you forsaken me?")

35 And some of the bystanders, [when they] heard [it], said, "Behold, he is summoning Elijah!"

36 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put [it] on a reed, [and] gave [it] to him to drink, saying, "Leave [him] alone! Let us see if Elijah is coming to take him down."

37 But Jesus uttered a loud cry [and] expired.

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal
• [b] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation