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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: Please explain this verse? Mark 15:34 |
Bible Answer: Obviously only Jesus knows for certain what motivated Him to cry out such as statement, but I'd like to offer the following as a "possible" reason that I do not believe is too far-fetched and rather reasonable when one ponders it. We know He cried out loudly, obviously knowing those watching would hear him, and we know the words he spoke can be found in the first verse of Psalms 22. I believe most of the Jews watching were well versed in the OT Scriptures as Jesus knew they would be. I believe Jesus cried this out "loudly" at least partly to draw attention to those verses in Psalms, thus identifying himself and the sacrifice he was committing at that very moment. I'm not trying to lessen the fact that He had to have been suffering extreme pain both physically and even spiritually; He, in all his holiness, was sacrificing himself in payment for a whole world of sins. But, as that sinless sacrifice or Savior, which the Bible professes Him to be, He would not and could not have jeopardized it by lashing out in error against the will of God the Father prior to paying the penalty for sins, that is, prior his death; Otherwise, He'd no longer have qualified as the Savior. But if we let his words lead us to read the entire chapter of Psalms 22, which begins with the same words Jesus spoke in Mark 15:34, you can see it paints a graphic picture of a man's crucifixion, which was prophesied centuries before and fulfilled in that moment: from the sneering masses to the piercing of his hands and feet, from the fate of his garments to his death prior to the thrust of the sword. Beginning with Christ's quote of the 1st verse to the last lines of Psalms 22, it all sums up the actions of that day and gives the next prophesy for the future--"It will be told of the LORD to the coming generation. They will come and will declare His righteousness. To a people who will be born, that HE has performed it." At least that's how I see it. |