What was the meaning of Jesus' last words?

Question

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46, KJV)

Answer 1

Those weren't Jesus' last words. The following Gospels each record the end differently.

Matthew 27: 50 states "Once again, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, and then gave up his spirit."

Mark 15: 37 states "Then Jesus, uttering a loud cry, breathed his last."

Luke 23: 46 states "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." After he said this, he expired."

John 19: 30 states: "When Jesus took the wine, he said, "Now it is finished." Then he bowed his head, and delivered over his spirit."

Each phrase, I believe, is meant to convey a different impression of Jesus. Crying out 'Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani' conveys a very human aspect of Jesus, one that is supposed to correlate Jesus to the human understanding of despair. The more human Jesus appears, the more capable he seems of handling human problems. If Jesus can feel despair, and still overcome such feelings, then so can us 'lowly' humans.

Answer 2

Because Jesus the man who had self realised through spiritual searching from within and had the power of Christ and Gnosis had realised that the power had left him and he felt totally alone ,nailed to that cross for a Humanity not deserving of his sacrifice.That's if you believe the version sanitised and controlled by the Churchians and their sinister power of rigid spiritual oppression which denies the Holy Wisdom and Mother. The problem for the Super Jesus Son of God ,may his name be never spoken and may his peace and blessings be upon you, is that this is the proof that Jesus was human.His martyrdom and betrayal where the ultimate conclusion of his mission but did he know the outcome of this? We are all the sons and daughters of God jesus said and I think that, yes He was the Son of God, just as you or I know that too because we will face death in our own time and we could end our lives if we followed the path that Jesus took in our search for love, truth and compassion.Do we do it? Jesus is many in selfless suffering and this world was not created as a garden of earthly delight but a trial and test towards self knowledge but religion,myth and the senseless endless nit-picking to define what are only translations from another time to prove what?That there is no God available to our limited imagination?What do you replace it with?The enternal angst of not being,not seeing,not feeling and not reaching even beyond that in transdecence of what we do not understand.That to me is the truly forsaken. The actual literal translation from Aramiac is actually:My Power, My Power,why have you forsaken me! The God thing was added later for purposes to identify with a figure called God and by implication his son Jesus.

Answer 3

Jesus took our sins upon himself being the "Lamb of God" (John Chap 1).
Sin has seperating power between man and God. Jesus became sin for us and took our penalty of death and seperation from God onto Himself. So when He is near death he cries out to the father, "Why have you forsaken me?"

He is feeling that seperation that man feels when we know we are not in fellowship and forgiveness with God.

Jesus took all of this upon Himself so we could be brought back into a right relationship with the Father.

John 14.6 "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except by me."

Romans 10.9-11 "9 If you use your mouth to say, "Jesus is Lord," and if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved. 10 We believe with our hearts, and so we are made right with God. And we use our mouths to say that we believe, and so we are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be disappointed."

Hope that helps.

Jesus Loves You

Answer 4

God cannot look on sin- so when Jesus took our sin upon Himself and was killed on the cross, for that time God turned away. Can you imagine the pain that Jesus endured on the cross? The physical pain is something I cannot even imagine. Jesus endured that pain- because if He did not want to many angels could have come to His aide. The hardest part was for His Father to look away. God had to do that for those few hrs. so that He would never have to look away from us, and we could be forgiven and have everlasting life. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

That is the first verse in Psalm 23.

In those days, most Jews had all the psalms memorized.

It was common for them to conjure up thoughts of an entire psalm, by reciting the first line only.

Just as "o say can you see" conjures up thoughts of the entire Star Spangled Banner.

Psalm 23, in its entirety, speaks of remaining faithful to God even in the face of severe adversity.

That's what Jesus was communicating to the crowd. By reciting the first line of the psalm, He was conveying the message contained in the entire psalm.

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Answer 6

God turned his back on Jesus at that time and his holiness was overcome with the sins of the saints. That was the point He took on the sins of the world.

Answer 7

Are you sure those were his last words?

Luke 23:46
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

John 19:30
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Answer 8

bystanders thought that he was calling for elijah. perhaps they misunderstood jesus' words because his speech was indistict as a result of his intense suffering of because his dialect differed from theirs(Mt 27:47; Mr 15:35) In calling out to his heavenly Father, acknowledging him as his God,Jesus fulfilled Psalm 22:1

Answer 9

When I see these words, what comes to mind is the huge power of sin & death. Light and Darkness can NEVER come together.

When Jesus died for the sins of man, he bore upon him so much sin, God had to steer clear. When Adam sinned, he could no longer abide in eden.

Which really tells us one thing. God did not and will never want to leave us. It is US who sins and cause the departure.

Answer 10

It's worth pointing out that three of the four Gospels have Jesus crying out a different thing entirely as his "last words".....