Mark 15:35

And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold he calleth Elijah.

Their misunderstanding came about by Jesus' use of the Hebrew language in the words [Eloi, Eloi], which in Hebrew could be mistaken for the name of the prophet. Here again surfaces the undeniable priority of Matthew. Cranfield said. "We should regard the Matthew form as the original."[14]

Here again the evil campaign of the Pharisees so long directed against the Lord, and particularly their slander that Elijah would have to rise from the dead before the Messiah came, is evident. The refutation of their error is in Mark 9:1,12, which see.