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NASB | Matthew 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud [agonized] voice, "ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" [Ps 22:1] |
Subject: WAS JESUS FORSAKEN BY HIS FATHER? |
Bible Note: Ok my dear friend. I think that an illustration will help you to understand the idea I had in mind in my previous note. One day Jesus said: "I am the door". Was He really a literal door to enter a house? Of course not. It was another way of saying: "I am the One through whom you will find the way of eternal life", right? When we say that Jesus has been forsaken by His Father it is in the sense that Jesus had no way out to escape the situation because it was the one planned by God from all eternity past. And this situation was the terrible fire of God expressing His holy wrath against sin. Keep in mind that He was bearing on His shoulders not so much an abandonement of God as such, but rather He was there to be punished for our sins. It is in that way that God was forsaking Him. Another important thing is this. If Jesus would have not been really forsaken, His cry to His Father would have become inconsistent with His real feeling and would have been in vain. By the way, it was not just a false feeling that He manifested in words, it was a reality that was happening in His body and mind. We can say what you referred to to prove that God never forsake when you said the words: "I will never leave you nor forsake you...". But here, watch out! The comparison with what God said in that last passage and the situation of the cross are not to be compared at all. The reality of what happened on the cross was the reality of what happened in the heart of Jesus as I said. He felt abandoned because He was, period; not because He was out of control of His words being in a state of suffering, even terribly. So it is in that sense that God forsake Jesus. We must understand the sense rather than trying to reason the words. |