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In relation to Jesus saying,"My God, why have thou forsaken me?", while dying on the cross.

2007-02-08 15:24:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Jesus quotes the first line of Psalm 22, which is: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" when suffering on the cross. It also includes references that seem to prophesy the crucifixion, such as "they pierced my hands and my feet" and "they part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."

2007-02-08 15:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

While dying on the cross, Jesus began reciting the 22nd Psalm. While many believe that Jesus was pleading with God, I tend to believe that it was the end of this psalm that deserves the attention. The Psalm starts out questioning God about forsaking, but ends up as a praise to God. I believe Jesus was in the process of offering praise to God.

2007-02-08 23:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Actually Psalm 22 was prophetic of Jesus Christ experiencing being seperated from God. The bible says that while Jesus was on the Cross, that God turned his back because of all the sin that was put on Jesus. If God had looked at all the sins of humanity that were placed on Jesus. It would have aroused His anger. So, Jesus made that comment on the Cross to say He could identify with man himself being seperated from God. Because after all, thats what sin does it seperates you from God.

2007-02-08 23:53:03 · answer #3 · answered by super saiyan 3 6 · 1 0

Jesus spoke the first verse of this Psalm while on the cross. It was written by David long before the Crucifixion. The first answer was correct that the rest of this Psalm prophesied the manner in which Jesus was crucified.

2007-02-08 23:28:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

a psalm is a sacred song or hymn. the bible has 66 books. and located in the old testament is a book called psalms. The first one third of psalms is largely prophetic. And so it is with the 22nd psalm. Mostly it foretells of Christ's Crucifixion on the cross right down to where the roman soldiers cast lots i.e. gambled for Christ's clothes.

2007-02-08 23:41:00 · answer #5 · answered by swindled 7 · 1 0

Well, the psalmist wrote 22 as a complaint. I think that one was David while he was fleeing from Saul.

Jesus, being a good Jew, probably was extremely well-versed in the Scriptures, and thus would've known the pslam.

Jesus quoted it because it reflected how he was feeling. That's what psalms were meant for...to express something so someone else would know what they were talking about.

2007-02-08 23:30:14 · answer #6 · answered by WithUnveiledFaces 3 · 1 0

"As to this salvation the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful search and inquiry, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow..." (I Peter 1:10,11)
Some suppose that this expression uttered by Jesus on the cross was an utterance of unbelief and despair.
Far from it, He was simply declaring the fact - that God the Father had abandoned Him, and more than this, poured out His wrath upon Him, as He writhed in torment. This is exactly what the Psalmist predicted more that 1000 years earlier when the Spirit of Christ in him moved him to pen such words. This is typified earlier in the Bible when Moses was instructed to raise a serpent on a pole, and all that looked upon the serpent on a pole, who were afflicted by the bites of fiery serpents, were instantly healed. This foreshadowed Jesus as the sin offering, who although He was innocent, died in the place of sinful men, that they might be healed and forgiven. (John 3:14; Numbers 21:9)
"For He made Him, who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (II Corinthians 5:21)

2007-02-08 23:41:49 · answer #7 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0 0

It's called a Messianic Psalm.

2007-02-08 23:39:05 · answer #8 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0 0

Actually it has reference prophetically to Jesus death on a torture stake at the time His Father had to pull back his Spirit so his son could be fully put to the test Jesus sensed that and cried out the Above and entrusted his spirit to his father then died gorbalizer

2007-02-09 00:45:03 · answer #9 · answered by gorbalizer 5 · 0 0

22:1 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of
David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou
so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?
22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;
and in the night season, and am not silent.
22:3 But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the
praises of Israel.
22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou
didst deliver them.
22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted
in thee, and were not confounded.
22:6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and
despised of the people.
22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out
the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
22:8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let
him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
22:9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou
didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God
from my mother's belly.
22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there
is] none to help.
22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan
have beset me round.
22:13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening
and a roaring lion.
22:14 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.
22:15 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.
22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked
have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my
vesture.
22:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength,
haste thee to help me.
22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the
power of the dog.
22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me
from the horns of the unicorns.
22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst
of the congregation will I praise thee.
22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of
Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of
the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when
he cried unto him, he heard.
22:25 My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation:
I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise
the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto
the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship
before thee.
22:28 For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the
governor among the nations.
22:29 All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and
worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before
him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the
Lord for a generation.


Even Jesus used sound bytes from others.

2007-02-08 23:29:29 · answer #10 · answered by Terry 7 · 0 0

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