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NASB | John 19:30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 19:30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and [voluntarily] gave up His spirit. |
Subject: "The Passion of the Christ" |
Bible Note: Greetings Emmaus, Jesus as he really was, must have been a very strong and muscular individual and not as we see him depicted in so many pictures. It is “my” opinion that Satan, working through the forces of evil, and the ruling powers at the time did everything that they could to kill Christ before he could make it to the cross. It took the strength of a special individual, physically, to endure what Jesus did and still make it to the cross where he would become cursed for our sins. Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: There is no doubt in my mind that Satan knows Scripture and he did his best to thwart or stop the working of Christ on the cross those last three hours. Satan tried to eliminate Christ at berth. Matthew 2:12-13 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. 13And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. I think God was helping him all the way up to the final sixth hour, when God finally had to turn his back on him and this is when darkness covered the earth; the moment he, Christ was made sin for us and he became separated from God for the first time ever. The last three hours to Jesus would be like an eternity to us it was so rough! Jesus endured all of the torture, before the last three hours without complaining one bit; he never opened his mouth once or complained until the wrath of God was poured out him because of our sin. He was experiencing the wages of sin for us, and those wages meant separation from God. Does anyone else see it that way with regards to the time before the last three hours? CDBJ |