Matthew 27:46?

Question

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

What’s happening in the above verse? For example, did God turn his Back on Christ? Something else?

Some of you folks are just winging it ... don’t have a clue ... except for two.

Great! more are added to the two who do have a clue.

Some of the answers bring to mind the following verse:

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15

Answer 1

He just quoting Ps 22:1 (Amazing he could quote Bible verses while being crucified. What excuses do we have?) Anyhow Ps 22 was written by king David 1000 years prior to Christ's crucifixion. It points to the messiah, which is reason he quoted it. In fact read through Psalm 22 and see other things in it that correlated with his crucifixion.

Answer 2

Great Jewish Teachers often used the opening verse to refer to a chapter in the Old Testament

I believe this is from Psalm 22:1

Therefore, read the whole chapter to see what Jesus meant.

Yes, Jesus asked in the Garden if there was any other way.

And no, there is no other way for sins to be paid, than by the
Blood of the Spotless Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.

One of my favorite songs is 10,000 angels.

He could have called 10,000 angels
to destroy the world and set Him free,
but He died alone, for you and me.

Happy Thanksgiving

Answer 3

The night hour would not normally be dark, but was, due to God's making is so in order to show the agony of the Lord Jesus in His human soul. By saying "My God My God," it shows deep sorrow, as does the fact that He spoke in his tongue of His birth. We as humans cannot understand the significance of this cry. It is related to 2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

In quoting Psalm 22, Jesus alludes to the great victory that the Psalm is describing.

Besides, we know that God does not forsake any of His children.

God bless

Answer 4

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). This cry is a fulfillment of Psalm 22:1
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.

Answer 5

Jesus was bearing all the sin for every person. Because of this, God had become separate from Him, and turned away. Short version lol

Take care, God bless

Answer 6

As Jesus was dying on the torture stake, about the ninth hour, or about 3:00 p.m., he called out: “E´li, E´li, la´ma sa·bach·tha´ni?” (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”) (Mt 27:46; Mr 15:34) Bystanders thought that he was calling for Elijah. Perhaps they misunderstood Jesus’ words because his speech was indistinct as a result of his intense suffering or because his dialect differed from theirs. (Mt 27:47; Mr 15:35) In calling out to his heavenly Father, acknowledging him as his God, Jesus fulfilled Psalm 22:1.

At about three in the afternoon, Jesus says: “I am thirsty.” Then, sensing that his Father has, as it were, withdrawn protection from him in order that his integrity might be tested to the limit, he calls out with a loud voice: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Upon hearing this, some who are standing nearby exclaim: “See! He is calling Elijah.” Immediately one of them runs and, using a sponge soaked with sour wine on the end of a hyssop stalk, gives him a
using a sponge soaked with sour wine on the end of a hyssop stalk, gives him a drink. But others say: “Let him be! Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
When Jesus receives the sour wine, he cries out: “It has been accomplished!” Yes, he has finished everything that his Father has sent him to earth to do. Finally, he says: “Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” Jesus thereby commits to God his life-force in confidence that God will restore it to him again. Then he bows his head and dies.

Answer 7

I believe that God as man needed to experience every thing a man would experience on earth in order for the perfection of God as man to be. Jesus as a man in physical pain, emotional abandonment, sorrow from his death as he leaves those who loved him as a man( i.e friends , family), everything we as humans feel inside and out, and yes that question , that moment when we all have said, "Why , oh Lord have you forsaken me?". Even when we know that is when God is closest to us. IT completed his perfection.

Answer 8

It is as Problem said. A fulfillment of Psalms 22. This is only one prophesy applied to the Messiah which he fulfilled.

Answer 9

well God left him because all of the worlds sin was on Jesus' shoulders so much that God couldnt be there to witness it mostly because God is so good and he perfect and Jesus was taking the full punishment for all the sins

Answer 10

Yes. Jesus was cut off from God the Father because he took our sin upon himself. God cannot tolerate sin, so Jesus was cut off from the other pesons of God. How this could be, God does not tell us, but that's what the verse says.