can anyone explain why jesus said u forsaken me my lord while he was on the cross?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Back in the days of Jesus, they did not have multiple copies of the Tonakh. They kept one copy safely stored in an ark (container) in the synagogue. So the students and priests, back then as well as today, would memorize the scriptures (they did this by singing it). Whenever they wanted to bring a chapter, or a Psalm to the attention of the students, they would not recite the entire chapter, they would say the first verse and the rest of the students would know the rest by memory.

When Jesus was on the cross, He employed this rabbinical device--He quoted the first verse. The Pharisees would hear this, then in their mind they would immediately do the "scripture shuffle" and find that this was the first verse of Psalm 22. They would then automatically recall the entire Psalm that would show that what was happening before them was prophetic--that Messiah had to die, be surrounded by accusing Gentiles scoffing, "he trusted in God, let Him deliver", He will have His hands and feet pierced causing His bones to come out of joint, that they would divide His garments, and at the end He will say "It is finished" (which is the Greek translation of the last verse).

So really, Jesus was alerting the Pharisees to what was happening and that all what they were seeing was planned from the foundations of the earth and that He was who He said He was--the Messiah, the subject and focus of Psalm 22.

Answer 3

my god my god why have you forsaken me is a quote from psalm 22. I can only presum you are using a very defferent translation could I ask which one.
Matthew 27:46 (New International Version)


46About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi,[a] lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Footnotes:

1. Matthew 27:46 Some manuscripts Eli, Eli
2. Matthew 27:46 Psalm 22:1

Answer 4

Yes I can, Cristen...:

You are not alone in your assessment because the Qur'an also says Jesus was not the Son of God because His Father would never have forsaken Him.

When Jesus accepted our sins, that is, He who knew no sin became sin for us," then God the Father, who can not dwell in the presence of sin, foresook His Son--just for that moment. Jesus sin-laden body, riddled with our our guilt, could not see into the gates of Heaven.

That must have been horrible for our Savior, but the Father allowed that--because Jesus must die the deat of a sinner.

First, I would suggest you read the entire chapter 53 of Isaiah where it talks of our sacrificial lamb perishing for us. It says it pleased God to to crush him and make him our offering that we may live--BEHOLD, THE LAMB OF GOD.

The cries of Jesus on the cross was foretold in Psalm 22: My God, My God, why have you forsaken me.

When Jesus "became sin", a reprobate, the bronze serpent lifted in the wilderness" by beholding His perfect life and substitutional death in our place, we need exclaim: "Oh! The wonders of God, thank you so much, Jesus."

More on the plan of redemption in a secret Bible code at: www.revelado.org/revealed.htm

Blessings and AGAPE love, One-Way

Answer 5

I think it has to do with the fact that in order to die, descend to the depths of hell, and save the world, he had to be separated from God, the Father. That is, in that moment, he was a representative of fallen man and thus, "forsaken" by God. He took all the sins of the world upon himself and ,as a sinful being, could not (in that moment) be in relationship with God. His humanity allowed him to die, but his deity allowed him to be raised from the dead three days later. Does that make sense?

Answer 6

Jesus, prior to His earthly experience, enjoyed a Father-Son relationship with God.

The Bible teaches that He came in the form of a human being to experience our ways, our struggles, pains,etc. He was tempted as we are daily, but unlike our general responses, He abstained from sin. He treated everyone the same. He did not discriminate, did not hate (except sin; never the sinner), healed, cured, raised the dead, etc.

Though He was commissioned to die for our sins, He - in our human form - at one point asked God to "take this cup from me." He knew, although He had to do this thing, He would go through extreme torture and die horribly. As a man, He would have preferred another course, but He had to, if we were to be allowed redemption and eternal life with God.

As He hung there suffering for us all, He cried out to the Father "Eli! Eli! Lama sabachtani?" As a man, He was feeling all of our sins and burdens; He was suffering for you and me. He felt forsaken by His Father who He knew loved Him so deeply.

Wouldn't you have cried out, too? I would!

Answer 7

Imagine yourself, spikes driven into your wrists and feet, dying in front of a crowd of people, thorns pushed into your scalp... You tell me you're not gonna shout out a few things you don't mean?

You fail to mention that Jesus also said, "Father, into Your hands I commend my Spirit." So if you're trying to say that Jesus lost His faith before He died, you are sooooooo wrong, missy!

Answer 8

He was actually quoting Psalm 22, and any of the Jews by his cross would have recognized it by the first line.

Psalm 22
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Answer 9

Jesus could sense that his Father has, as it were, withdrawn protection from him to allow his integrity to be tested to the limit, and he quotes David's words. (Ps 22:1)

Answer 10

That's because in order for God to let Jesus die - he had to turn his back on him.If he hadn't I don't know that he would have allowed it.And Jesus couldn't feel God with him anymore.