Shouldn't Jesus' last words have been "first and foremost I want to thank the pharises..."?

Question

....because without them none of this would have been possible. I'd like thank God, my mother and stepfather, John the Baptist.... See you in a few days"

Why was he doing the scared speech?

"Forgive them father..."
"Father, why have you forsaken me?"

Dramatic effect?

Answer 1

It sounds like Jesus believed his own hype all his life, then became disillusioned at the last minute.

Answer 2

Mat 27:46 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?

During the three hours which the darkness continued,
Jesus was in agony, wrestling with the powers of darkness, and
suffering his Father's displeasure against the sin of man, for
which he was now making his soul an offering. Never were there
three such hours since the day God created man upon the earth,
never such a dark and awful scene; it was the turning point of
that great affair, man's redemption and salvation. Jesus uttered
a complaint from Ps 22:1. Hereby he teaches of what use the
word of God is to direct us in prayer, and recommends the use of
Scripture expressions in prayer. The believer may have tasted
some drops of bitterness, but he can only form a very feeble
idea of the greatness of Christ's sufferings. Yet, hence he
learns something of the Saviour's love to sinners; hence he gets
deeper conviction of the vileness and evil of sin, and of what
he owes to Christ, who delivers him from the wrath to come. His
enemies wickedly ridiculed his complaint. Many of the reproaches
cast upon the word of God and the people of God, arise, as here,
from gross mistakes. Christ, just before he expired, spake in
his full strength, to show that his life was not forced from
him, but was freely delivered into his Father's hands. He had
strength to bid defiance to the powers of death: and to show
that by the eternal Spirit he offered himself, being the Priest
as well as the Sacrifice, he cried with a loud voice. Then he
yielded up the ghost. The Son of God upon the cross, did die by
the violence of the pain he was put to. His soul was separated
from his body, and so his body was left really and truly dead.
It was certain that Christ did die, for it was needful that he
should die. He had undertaken to make himself an offering for
sin, and he did it when he willingly gave up his life.

Answer 3

Interesting question...with an answer.

The Father Father question is answered in 2 ways.

1. First it indicated the time when God had to turn from Christ and when the sins of the world were placed on Him.

2. It pointed to another fulfillment of prophecy by quoting David in the psalms, who had written it as prophecy for what Christ was to go through. He was pointing to the fact that this act was a fulfillment of prophecy.

Answer 4

"Father, why have you forsaken me?" is an allusion to Psalm 22:1. And it shows that at that moment, with the sin of the world on his shoulders, God poured out the wrath on the world on Jesus, or himself, as Christians believe.

"Forgive them father" was just Jesus' earnest prayer for those killing him. I have to admit, it is rather dramatic. It's the kleenex moment of the story.

Answer 5

If you were sitting at the bedside of a dying loved one, and listening to their last dying words, would you be so disrespectful? Have you no decency?

1. "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." Lk. 23: 34
2. "This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise." Lk. 23: 43
3. "Woman, behold thy son." Jn. 19: 26-7
4. "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Mk. 15: 34 (see the WHOLE of Psalm 22)
5. "I thirst." Jn. 19: 28.
6. "It is finished." Jn 19: 30
7. "Into thine hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit." Lk. 23:46

You call that a scared speech????

Answer 6

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 7

Realize that Jesus was struggling with his human side.

Most of us have the tendency to ask, "Why me?"

As the Son Of God sent to seek salvation for the world, "Forgive them father fore they know not what they do," is appropriate.


It wasn't an exceptance speech.

Answer 8

He's a pure devotee, I think he can do whatever he wants.

On a sidenote, Christ didn't feel any pain, he was merely inhabiting this material body of flesh and blood with his spiritual body, and his entire time on the cross was immersed in love of God. This is known as samadhi, and he felt nothing but ecstatic, transcendental bliss and love for God.

Answer 9

Dramatics from the writer.

Answer 10

Yup.

It was a big practical joke, kinda like a jack-in-the-box, except it was a Jesus-in-the-hole. They both popped out, though.

But he couldn't have had the people there know that.

:P