"And now before the swaying multitude are revealed the final scenes—the patient Sufferer treading the path to Calvary; the Prince of heaven hanging upon the cross; the haughty priests and the jeering rabble deriding His expiring agony; the supernatural darkness; the heaving earth, the rent rocks, the open graves, marking the moment when the world's Redeemer yielded up His life. GC 667.1"
"And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,"
The EGW passage directly references the scene of Christ's crucifixion, including the reviling by those passing by, which is explicitly mentioned in Matthew 27:39. The EGW passage amplifies the biblical account with additional details, but the core element of the reviling is a clear connection.
"The awful spectacle appears just as it was. Satan, his angels, and his subjects have no power to turn from the picture of their own work. Each actor recalls the part which he performed. Herod, who slew the innocent children of Bethlehem that he might destroy the King of Israel; the base Herodias, upon whose guilty soul rests the blood of John the Baptist; the weak, timeserving Pilate; the mocking soldiers; the priests and rulers and the maddened throng who cried, “His blood be on us, and on our children!”—all behold the enormity of their guilt. They vainly seek to hide from the divine majesty of His countenance, outshining the glory of the sun, while the redeemed cast their crowns at the Saviour's feet, exclaiming: “He died for me!” GC 667.2"
"Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children."
The EGW passage directly quotes the phrase "His blood be on us, and on our children!" from Matthew 27:25, making it a clear and direct allusion.
"John, and their truehearted brethren, and with them the vast host of martyrs; while outside the walls, with every vile and abominable thing, are those by whom they were persecuted, imprisoned, and slain. There is Nero, that monster of cruelty and vice, beholding the joy and exaltation of those whom he once tortured, and in whose extremest anguish he found satanic delight. His mother is there to witness the result of her own work; to see how the evil stamp of character transmitted to her son, the passions encouraged and developed by her influence and example, have borne fruit in crimes that caused the world to shudder. GC 667.3"
"And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"
The EGW passage describes the martyrs rejoicing while their persecutors, like Nero, witness their exaltation. This echoes the cry for justice in Revelation 6:10, where the martyrs ask for vengeance on those who killed them. The EGW passage provides a specific example of this dynamic.