"Yet to human sight it will appear that the people of God must soon seal their testimony with their blood as did the martyrs before them. They themselves begin to fear that the Lord has left them to fall by the hand of their enemies. It is a time of fearful agony. Day and night they cry unto God for deliverance. The wicked exult, and the jeering cry is heard: “Where now is your faith? Why does not God deliver you out of our hands if you are indeed His people?” But the waiting ones remember Jesus dying upon Calvary's cross and the chief priests and rulers shouting in mockery: “He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He be the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him.” Matthew 27:42 . Like Jacob, all are wrestling with God. Their countenances express their internal struggle. Paleness sits upon every face. Yet they cease not their earnest intercession. GC 630.1"
"He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him."
Ellen White directly references Matthew 27:42 in this passage.
"bound in sheaves for the garner of God; the tares will be bound as fagots for the fires of destruction. GC 630.2"
"Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn."
The EGW passage directly references the imagery of binding wheat and tares from Matthew 13:30, making it an explicit allusion rather than just a thematic parallel.