As Jesus was about to die, he asked "Why haste you abandoned me?" Who how or what had abandoned Jesus and why?

Question

I know that my recalling of the exact words of the Bible are probably incorrect, but the nugget of the story is represented in my question. So please give me and others an answer to the question. Who, how and what and why did Jesus feel abandoned?

Answer 1

He felt God had abandoned him in his time of greatest need... during his crucifixion. I find images like that fascinating as it shows Jesus as human, not God... while we see so many claim he was both at the same time... but obviously in that statement, he wasn't God at all.

Answer 2

Have you ever experienced difficulty in your life or trouble? And there was no way for you to get yourself out of it? And all your friends were no where to be found? So the next solution most people take is their parents....what if your parents didn't answer the phone, maybe they took a trip in the midst of your sorrows, or maybe even helped someone else out over you? Well....you would feel lost and abandoned...you would feel hurt...but there's that little instinct in you that saids, they will still be there for me....well, that's the same thing...

Sometimes in the worse situations the adversary can make you feel that God isn't there for you....When he really is....This is a ploy to mess with your faith and believe....The adversary tried everything he could to have Jesus denounce his faith through out his whole life and it didn't work....his last and only effort to destroy Jesus' faith was on the cross the moment before he was taken up to be with his father.....didn't work

Answer 3

Jesus was simply quoting the first verse of Psalm 22, a Psalm of David written 1000 years prior to Christ's death.

Pick up a Bible and read Psalm 22 and see what else in it also alludes to the crucifixion of Christ.

Answer 4

Jesus practiced keeping a connection with God at all times. This requires a clear mind. Pain is very intrusive and difficult to ignore. It is much like noise when you are trying to concentrate. God never abandoned Jesus but Jesus momentarily lost his focus and felt as though he had been abandoned.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

As you may or may not know, He quoted Psalm 22, which was prophetic to the moment He was on the cross. The events described in Psalm 22 were being acted out before their eyes, and He was reminding them of it. I SERIOUSLY DOUBT He felt abandoned, because HE KNEW the CUP HE HAD TO DRINK. He was simply teaching from the cross. The disciples knew the the words of the Torah, and when it came time to reference a psalm(which were usually sung), they would reference it by the first line. So He reminded them of the psalm as a prophecy they were seeing.

Answer 6

Jesus was calling out to His Father in heaven, why have you abandoned me? It was because at that very moment, the relationship between Heavenly Father and Son was momentarily severed. Why?

Because at that moment all the sins of the world were being placed on Jesus' shoulders. All of them. God cannot look upon sin; He turned away. Jesus bore them all alone. For me, for you.

Answer 7

I agree with patrone07 and others about Psalm 22 and with Esther about the sins of the world were being placed on Jesus' shoulders. All of them. God cannot look upon sin; He turned away. Jesus bore them all alone for a short time.

But “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me.” were not his last words. His last words were: “It is accomplished. It is finished. It is done.” and then having fulfilled the relevant Old Testament covenants and prophecies, his relationship with the Father was restored and he said: “Into your hands I commit my spirit.”

Answer 8

jesus felt abandondment from the hevenly father aka God. God could not look at Jesus because at that moment Jesus was taking upon all the sins that had ever been commited, were being commited, and that ever will be commited. There was so much evil in him at that time that he had to turn his back on him because God is all good.

Answer 9

“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). This cry is a fulfillment of Psalm 22:1, one of many parallels between that psalm and the specific events of the crucifixion. It has been difficult to understand in what sense Jesus was “forsaken” by God. It is certain that God approved His work. It is certain that He was innocent. He had done nothing to forfeit the favor of God. As His own Son - holy, harmless, undefiled, and obedient - God still loved Him. In none of these senses could God have forsaken Him.

However, Isaiah tells us that “he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows; that he was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities; that the chastisement of our peace was laid upon him; that by his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5). He redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us (Galatians 3:13). He was made a sin-offering, and He died in our place, on our account, that He might bring us near to God. It was this, doubtless, which caused His intense sufferings. It was the manifestation of God’s hatred of sin, in some way which He has not explained, that Jesus experienced in that terrible hour. It was suffering endured by Him that was due to us, and suffering by which, and by which alone, we can be saved from eternal death.

In those awful moments, Jesus was expressing His feelings of abandonment as God placed the sins of the world on Him – and because of that had to “turn away” from Jesus. As Jesus was feeling that weight of sin, He was experiencing separation from God for the only time in all of eternity. It was at this time that 2 Corinthians 5:21 occurred, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus became sin for us, so He felt the loneliness and abandonment that sin always produces, except that in His case, it was not His sin – it was ours.

Recommended Resource: Why Believe in Jesus?: Who He Is, What He Did, and His Message for You Today by Tim LaHaye.

Answer 10

Jesus said that because God had abandoned him because at that moment Jesus was bearing every possible sin that was ever committed and ever would be committed.