Matthew 27:40

Good News Translation

“You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days! Save yourself if you are God's Son! Come on down from the cross!”

Cross References

Matthew 16:4

How evil and godless are the people of this day! You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah.” So he left them and went away.

Matthew 26:61

and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to tear down God's Temple and three days later build it back up.’”

Matthew 27:41

In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the Law and the elders made fun of him:

Matthew 27:42

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! Isn't he the king of Israel? If he will come down off the cross now, we will believe in him!

Matthew 27:54

When the army officer and the soldiers with him who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and everything else that happened, they were terrified and said, “He really was the Son of God!”

Matthew 4:3

Then the Devil came to him and said, “If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn into bread.”

Matthew 4:6

and said to him, “If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the scripture says, ‘God will give orders to his angels about you; they will hold you up with their hands, so that not even your feet will be hurt on the stones.’”

Luke 16:31

But Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone were to rise from death.’”

Revelation 11:10

The people of the earth will be happy because of the death of these two. They will celebrate and send presents to each other, because those two prophets brought much suffering upon the whole human race.