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NASB | Mark 15:34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" which is translated, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?"--which is translated, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" [Ps 22:1] |
Bible Question: I read a little bit about when Jesus said, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" in the Read Answers section, but I still don't really understand why he said this. Can anyone help me to understand it better? |
Bible Answer: Greetings Puppytoes, You asked, "..when Jesus said, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"... Can anyone help me to understand it better?" "My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me?" There is a mystery behind that cry which we cannot penetrate. Maybe it was like this. Jesus had taken this life of ours upon Him. He had done our work and faced our temptations and borne our trials. He had suffered all that life could bring to Him. He had known the failure of friends, the hatred of foes, the malice of enemies. He had known the most searing pain that life can offer. Up to this moment Jesus had gone through every experience of life, except one- He had never known the consequence of sin. Now if there is one thing sin does, it is that it separates us from God. It puts up between us and God a barrier like an unscalable wall. That was the one human experience through which Jesus had never passed because He was without sin. It may be that at this moment that experience came upon Him. It did not come because He had sinned, but it came because before He could completely identify Himself with our humanity He had to go through it. In this terrible, grim, bleak moment Jesus really and truly identified Himself with the sin of man. Here we have the divine paradox- Jesus knew what it was to be a sinner. No man can understand an experience unless he goes through it. And this experience must have been doubly agonizing for Jesus, because He had never known what it was to be separated by this barrier from God. That is why He can understand so well. That is why we need never fear to go to Him when sin cuts us off from God. Because He has gone through it He can help others who are going through it. There is no depth of human experience which Christ has not shared and plumbed." (pg. 383, The Gospel of Mark, by William Barclay, 1956 The Westminster Press) --Makarios |