<p>27:43 <em>He trusts in God</em>- As in :42 &quot;He saved others&quot;, a tacit recognition that He had indeed trusted in God. </p><p><em>Let Him deliver him now</em>- Perhaps mocking the Lord's model prayer, &quot;Deliver us from evil&quot;. If so, this is an indication of how well known the Lord's teachings had become. Even the elders knew the content of His model prayer.</p><p><b><font size=3><em><b>If He desires him</b></em><b>- They were alluding to the LXX of Ps. 18:19 and 91:11. God cannot be tempted, otherwise He would have responded. 'If God </b><em><b>likes</b></em><b> Him', is what they were really implying. </b></font></b></p><p><em>For he said: I am the Son of God</em>- The Lord is never recorded as actually saying that in so many words. He preferred to leave His works and character to show that fact. And these learned men showed ignorance of the most basic Bible teaching- that God does not immediately deliver His children from their crises, nor does His apparent silence mean that He does not love them.</p>