Why was Jesus so scared about dying? Shouldn't he have just said "see you in a couple of days"?

Answer 1

because he knows that there is no god to help him

Answer 2

These are my thoughts:

Jesus had a human side that could fell pain. Maybe he was disturbed by the nature of his death, since he knew how he would suffer and die.

Jesus also could have grieved in the garden because he knew he was about to take the sins of the world on his shoulders. In doing this God the Father "looked away" from Jesus (See Matt. 27:46) Since God and sin can not associate, it seems that God turned his back to Jesus for a moment. If this is true, then this would have been the first time that the Son and Father had ever been appart. Maybe Jesus was afraid to be rejected by the Father.

Also maybe Jesus was grieving for our sins. Possibly all the sins of each individaul person of the world (past and future) were going through his mind. This would make me cry.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

He wasn't scared about dying. What was an appalling prospect was to be cut off from the Father for the first time ever. We can't get our heads round the horror of that experience. Jesus and the Father had been one throughout eternity and suddenly they were going to be totally separated as He suffered the fate of sinners. That is what He dreaded, not the physical suffering.

Answer 4

Scared?? The specter of violent death hovers over Jesus and torments him. But not a spirit of fear. I think you are mistaken. Look closely at the Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane! As He had done several times in the gospel Jesus gathers his strength in prayer. It is not a polite or heroic prayer but one that echoes the raw expressions of faith found in the psalms: "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup away from me, but not what I will but what you will." (14:36). So much of the spirit of Jesus is here: his tenacious and intimate devotion to God, his "Abba," the fierce struggles with the power of evil and death that marked his ministry in Galilee (see, for example, 5:1-20). But "scared"??? I think not!!

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure if your own people were about to nail your hands and feet to two pieces of wood after they beat the crap out of you, you would be a bit scared too. But then again that is the whole concept of religion, be good or look at the pain that awaits you!!! Great philosophy.

Answer 6

Jesus was sad, He was alone. He wasn't afraid to die because that's what he came here for. He had all of our sins put upon Him. He became completely separated from God.

God had to turn His back on Jesus, because Jesus became sin. He took on all of the sins of everyone in the world.

When Jesus became sin, He was sacrificed for us so that when we leave this world, we will not be separated from God and we can say see you in a couple of days.

Answer 7

Sho-Nuff, he was tortured and murdered in a brutal way. No one would sit there and say, "Well, it's all right because I'll be back in a few days". Would you really enjoy having the skin ripped from your body by whips, be beaten by clubs, mocked, tortured, forced to carry a very heavy cross up a hill and then nailed to it and left to die? Doesn't sound like something to look forward to to me.

Answer 8

Allegedly because he was fully human, and that part was scared. I personally can't make sense of it myself......Just being honest....

Answer 9

This is to illustrate his human frailties. Although He was God, he was also human in EVERY way, except sin.

Answer 10

He wasn't
In Matthew 27:45-46, it says, "Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. 46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" If Jesus is God, why would He say this?
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 surrounded me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. 13 They open wide their mouth at me, 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 within me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And Thou dost lay me in the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me; 18 They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots.

The term 'dogs' was used by the Jews to refer to Gentiles (cf. Matt. 15:21-28). His heart has melted within Him (v. 14). During the crucifixion process, the blood loss causes the heart to beat harder and harder and become extremely fatigued. Dehydration occurs (v. 15). Verses 16b-18 speak of piercing His hands and feet and dividing his clothing by casting lots. This is exactly what happen as described in Matt. 27:35.
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.

A further comment

2 Cor. 5:21 says, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God 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 upon 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 (1 Pet. 2:24), that the Father, spiritually, turned away. At that time, the Son may have cried out.
One thing is for sure. We have no capacity to appreciate the utterly horrific experience of having the sins of the world put upon the Lord Jesus as He hung, in excruciating pain, from that cross. The physical pain was immense. The spiritual one must have been even greater.
That shows us clearly how much God loves us.

Answer 11

because he had time to think about it and it really hert. i didn't reference that from the Bible but that could be it. but he trusted in God and prayed about it. I sure am glad he Died for us!