My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me?

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Pansy:
When Jesus says this on the cross, is he quoting Psalms 22?
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Hi Pansy! 👋

He sure is! Back in Jesus’ day people knew the psalms very well. To simply say the first line was to draw to mind the entire psalm. In citing the first line of psalm 22 the Jews within ear shot would have called to mind the entire psalm and recognized that what appeared to be a very bleak situation would eventually end up in triumphan.

In Christ,
Nancy 🙂
 
It also fulfilled prophecy, since in one Psalm David clearly describes the agony of one crucified, yet he was not crucified, and that was written some 400 years before the birth of Christ. Crucifiction didn’t come into use until the Romans came to power. ❤️
 
yep, happens I had just learned that about an hour before ou posted this!!! It gives so much more meaning and context when understood as that.
 
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Crucifiction didn’t come into use until the Romans came to power.
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Crucifixion was not invented by the Romans. It was used well before the life of Christ Jesus. It probably originated among the Persians circa the 7th century B.C.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
Absolutely - he’s quoting that psalm. I never understood that passage at the crucifixion until I learned about how the Jewish people knew their Scriptures extremely well - it was their culture, much as TV is today’s culture. Understood in the historical and biblical context, Jesus saying “My God, My God…” makes so much more sense and is rich with meaning.
 
Yes. Jews of the time understood that quoting the first verse of a psalm was a shorthand method of alluding to the entire psalm. It pays to read the entire text of Psalm 22 to understand the full context of Jesus’ statement on the cross.
 
:hmmm: Interesting. At a Nazarene Church, I had been taught that because Christ had taken on the sins of the world, God could no longer gaze upon Him and turned His face from Him.

Is this not accurate? Is it only refering to the triumphant end? Or is the explanation I had accurate but incomplete?

God Bless,
Maria
 
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Pansy:
When Jesus says this on the cross, is he quoting Psalms 22?
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Yes. In John 10:35 Jesus said, “… and Scripture cannot be broken”. In other words, we cannot interpret one verse of the Bible apart from all of Scripture. Why would Jesus do so from the Cross?
 
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