Mark 15:35

35 And some of them that stode by when they hearde yt sayde: beholde he calleth for Helyas

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 sixte houre was come darknes aroose over all the erth vntyll ye nynthe houre.

34 And at the nynthe houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce sayinge: Eloi Eloi lamaasbathani which is yf it be interpreted: my God my God why hast thou forsaken me?

35 And some of them that stode by when they hearde yt sayde: beholde he calleth for Helyas

36 And one ran and filled a sponge full of veneger and put it on a rede and gave him to drinke sayinge: let him alone let vs se whether Helyas will come and take him doune.

37 But Iesus cryed with aloude voyce and gave vp the gooste.