why did Jesus cry Eli, Eli..... when he was on the cross?

Question

please answer with Biblical verses only, not interested in opinion of why he said this but a literal explenation in scripture that exactly answers this question

the exact question is WHY did he say this??
thank you first two answerers

Answer 1

It was in refrence to Psalm 22, when he cried the first line of that it seems to be to say look at me today this is fulfilled much in the same way he did in the temple in Luke 4

Answer 2

Eli,Eli,la-ma-sa-bach-tha-ni

see psalms 22:1 to 31. Everything that happened to Jesus on the cross was written around 950 BC to fulfill phophesy.

A psalm of David

No Opinion given per your request

Answer 3

WHY? well why dont you ask him. no, just kidding.
ok:
ok. so God cried out,"My god, My god, why have you foresaken me?"
why would he say that if HE was God?
well, he was quoting from psalm 22, verse one,"my God, my God why have you foresaken me?"
he quoted that verse because he was fulfilling it on the cross.

verse 18 of psalm 22 says"they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots."

then in matthew 27, verse 35, they say,"when they had crucified him they divided up his clothing by casting lots."

psalm 22 was written 600 yrs after christ was born. jesus was pointing to the scriptures to substaniate his messianic message.

something else is that in 2 cor, 5:21 says," he made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness in him."
It is possible that at some moment on the cross, when jesus became sin on our behalf, that God the father, in a sense, turned his back on the son. it says in hab. 1:13 that God is too pure to look upon evil. therefore it is possible that when jesus bore our sins in his body on the cross that the father, spiritually, turned away. at that time, jesus may have cried out.


hope that answers ur question.

Answer 4

I know your looking for Bible verses only. But this can be explained easier then some may think. When Jesus Was on the cross and said the famous line, " My God My God, why hast thou forsaken me." Seeing Jesus suffer as he did it hurt God so much that he went to the furthest reaches of his kingdom so he wouldn't see what was happening, God cried because he wanted to help Jesus, God knew that He had to go through what he did to fulfill all prophecies concerning him.

Answer 5

Isaiah 53:4-10 (NKJV)
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
[5] But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
[6] All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

[7] He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
[8] He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
[9] And they made His grave with the wicked--
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

[10] Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

Psalm 22:1 (NKJV)
To the Chief Musician. Set to 'The Deer of the Dawn.' A Psalm of David.
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning?

As always, Jesus came to fulfill prophecy. He was fulfilling prophecy with his cry. He was also experiencing the Father's wrath for our sin.

Answer 6

The complete word is "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Matt 27:46) Interestingly, in death, Jesus was quoting scripture from the Old Testament: ( Psalms 22:1-2, NIV) "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?"

Why did God, the Father forsake or abandon Jesus in the moment of His death? The Bible does not answer this question specifically.

The first assumption is when Jesus took on the sin of the world, God turned away because He cannot look upon sin. This means that Jesus was left by Himself to suffer.

On the cross, Jesus fulfills the words of a Messianic Psalm, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning?” (Psalm 22:1). His cry on the cross was not an expression of lack of confidence in God the Father. It was an expression of real suffering because God the Father had truly and really forsaken Him on the cross.

Why should God the Father abandon His beloved Son? The Bible gives us the answer to Jesus’ haunting question. Jesus, the sinless one, suffered and died as if He was a sinner! That is why God forsook Him, letting Him die slowly on a cruel cross. “He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief when You make His soul an offering for sin” (Isaiah 53:9,10).

Do you ask about whose sins He was carrying? Certainly, they were not His own for He was spotless, perfectly holy. Christians know the answer well: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6). Christ “Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24).

Your sins could be in one of two places: either on your own head or nailed to the cross. If you carry your sins to the grave, they will carry you to hell forever. If you believe in Christ, He bore your sins on the cross, and when you die He will carry you in His arms to heaven.

Answer 7

First of all, Jesus quoted Psalm 22:1 which begins with, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?". Jesus quoted this Psalm in order to draw attention to it and the fact that He was fulfilling it there on the cross. Consider verses 11-18 in Psalm 22:
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

Psalm 22 was written about 600 years before Christ was born. At that time, crucifixion had not yet been invented. Actually, the Phoenician's developed it and Rome borrowed the agonizing means of execution from them. So, when Rome ruled over Israel, it became the Roman means of capital punishment imposed upon the Jews whose biblical means of execution was stoning. Nevertheless, Jesus is pointing to the scriptures to substantiate His messianic mission.

Answer 8

I don't know anything about the new testament or why Jesus would say anything. I do know a little bit of Hebrew to say that Eli means my god in Hebrew. El is a name for g-d and li means mine.

Answer 9

Eloi, eloi lama sabacthani - forgive my spelling, I typed it phonetically as it is proounced.

In Greek it means, Father, Father why have you forsaken me.
The term Eloi is actually a very familiar term, close to Daddy in English.

Christ died, God did forsake him on the cross (that was his dying for our sins) and he went to hell and preached his victory over death. Matthew, the 27th Chapter 45-46, Mark 15:33

Answer 10

he was saying god god why have you forsaken me. for just a short little brief time jesus was in the flesh. god never forsoke him jesus followed in gods will the whole time it was just time for him to die. just a little not when he cried out eli, eli, some of the people that where there thought he was crying out for elisah