What does He mean?

[BintuluChuchGuy]

What did Jesus mean when he said

‘Eli Eli Lema Sabachtani’(God,God,why have you forsaken me?)

 

[tee_eff_em]

[BIBLEDRB]Psalms 21[/BIBLEDRB]

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[GEddie]

What did Jesus mean when he said

‘Eli Eli Lema Sabachtani’(God,God,why have you forsaken me?)

He was a dying human being, in the last stages of grief and of fear.

With the exception of committing sin, HE experienced, especially in death, all of the psychological hideousness we would. HE was afraid, and felt, emotionally, that HE faced this fear alone; although in HIS mind HE knew better.

We were never meant to cease being, even temporarily, and so death is hideous, even to one who can get himself out of it.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Claire_from_DE]

He was praying the first words of the psalm tee ef em posted. This is how He felt at that moment, in great torment and dying.

And this psalm is a prophecy about Him, even the part in verse 19 about them gambling for His garments, which is what the soldiers were doing right then.

Although the psalm begins in desperation it ends in triumph. The psalmist is filled with confidence in God, who hears him. The religious Jews who heard Jesus would have remembered the entire psalm and would have understood it as a prayer.

Some bystanders who didn’t understand Hebrew thought He was calling out for help from the prophet Elijah.

 

[CEM5]

What did Jesus mean when he said

‘Eli Eli Lema Sabachtani’(God,God,why have you forsaken me?)

Hi there,

As was quoted in Psalm 21, these words are the first opening words of this prophecy. It is the Prayer of an Innocent man, but in the end is victory.

Because Jesus could not recite the whole Psalm nor really say much at all, every Jewish person knew the Psalms, and when Jesus recited these first opening words, it would have brought to mind to those around who knew the Psalm, of the meaning. Vicory in the end.

Jesus suffered torment and agony for hours (even during the scourging and crown of thorns and carrying the cross), but never uttered a word against His pain and suffering. Same with His last dying breath - it wasn’t about being abandoned but a reminder that He would be victorious and even conquer death in the end.

Just as many people know the nursery rhyme “Twinkle Twinkle little star”, just saying those opening words would bring to mind the rest of the rhyme/song. We know all the words having been taught them since a child. Same with the Jews. They knew the Psalms by heart.

blessings,
CEM