Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #9 Matthew 27:45-50 – Jesus Expires During a Darkness

Matthew 27:45-50 – Jesus Expires During a Darkness

|| Mark 15:33-37; Luke 23:44-46

MT27:45 Now from high noon a darkness occurred over the land[1] until three o’clock. MT27:46 About three in the afternoon Jesus screamed in a loud voice, “Eli, eli, lama sabachthani?”[2] (or, “‘My God, my God, why have You abandoned me?’”[3]) [Psalm 22:1] MT27:47 But some of those standing around thought Jesus was calling for Elijah. MT27:48 And immediately one in the crowd ran and placed a sponge filled with sour wine on a stick and offered it to Jesus to drink. MT27:49 The rest of the crowd said, “Leave him alone! Let us see if Elijah comes to save him!” Another took a spear and pierced[4] Jesus in his side and then blood and water discharged. MT27:50 Now after Jesus again cried out with a loud voice he gave up the pneuma.[5]

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[1] Darkness occurred over the land: PME: darkness spread over the whole countryside.

[2] Eli, eli, lama sabachthani: A Hebrew (Aramaic) phrase from Psalm 22:1. This near-death outburst seems to indicate the language Jesus normally spoke, Hebrew (Aramaic).

[3] My God, my God, why have You abandoned me: Near the moment of his death the Nazarene quotes Psalm 22:1 in his outcry. Jesus thus applies Psalm 22 to himself. Read and meditate on this Psalm which seems to describe 1,000 years before Christ a man dying on a stake. Note Psalm 22:16 (Septuagint), “They pierced my hands and feet.”

[4] Another took a spear and pierced: John 19:34 adds, “… one of the soldiers jabbed his side with a spear.” Compare Isaiah 53:5 and Zechariah 12:10 (Revelation 1:7).

[5] He gave up the pneuma: Or, KJV: yielded up the ghost; PME: and died; MOF: gave up his spirit; RIEU: yielded up his life; NEB: breathed his last; BER: dismissed his spirit. The literal meaning of PNEUMA is breath or wind.

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Preceding

Matthew 17:22-23 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Grief and Jesus’ Prediction of His Death

Matthew 20:17-19 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Onward to Jerusalem!

Matthew 20:24-28 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Authority Not the Way – Serve Others

Matthew 21:33-41 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Parable of the Vineyard

Death of Christ on the day of preparation

Matthew 27 – The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – Bible Students Intro

Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #1 Matthew 27:1-2 – Priests Hand Jesus Over to Pilate

Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #2 Matthew 27:3-10 – Judas Hangs Himself

Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #3 Matthew 27:11-14 – “Are You King of the Jews?”

Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #4 Matthew 27:15-23 – Barabbas or Jesus?

Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #5 Matthew 27:24-26 – “His Blood Come Upon Us!”

Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #6 Matthew 27:27-31 – Jesus Afflicted by Troops

Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #7 Matthew 27:32-37 – Executed at Golgotha

Matthew 27 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Final Hours: Trial, Execution and Burial – #8 Matthew 27:38-44 – The Mob’s Abuse

In the death of Christ, the son of God, is glorification

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Additional reading

1. Celebrations pointing to events of ultimate meaning
2. Entrance of a king to question our position #2 Who do we want to see and to be
3. Actions to be a reflection of openness of heart
4. Rejected and Despised by Men
5. The night before Jesus his execution
6. Observance of the Lord’s Evening Meal
7. The Memorial Supper
8. Foretold Messiah 2 a Voice giving The Word to His servants
9. A Messiah to die
10. Eostre, Easter, White god, chocolate eggs, Easter bunnies and metaphorical resurrection
11. Christian values, traditions, real or false stories, pure and upright belief
12. Easter: Origins in a pagan Christ
13. Days of Nisan, Pesach, Pasach, Pascha and Easter
14. Wednesday 5 April – Sunday 9 April 30 CE Pesach or Passover versus Easter
15. Lost senses or a clear focus on the one at the stake
16. The seven last sayings of Christ discussed in the new edition of the Christadelphian
17. To turn the world into a “vessel” receptive of God
18. Today’s thought “Scorned by mankind” (January 10)
19. Today’s thought “All the days of my life and …” (January 11)
20. Why think that (2) … Jesus claimed to be something special
21. History’s Most Famous Execution
22. Dying for or instead
23. To believe in the liberation of slavery and to repent
24. Biblical Yeshua/ Jesus or Another European Greco- Roman Jesus ??
25. God son king and his subjects
26. A voice cries out: context
27. Completion of historic renovation of the Edicule
28. After darkness a moment of life renewal
29. A Living Faith #8 Change – The death of Christ was the culmination of a life of sacrifice. The more we behold the glory and character of the Lord Jesus, the more we mediate and reflect upon his example, then the more we will grow to be like him.
30. A perfect life, obedient death, and glorious resurrection
31. When you believe Jesus is God, do you think he died?
32. Jesus the “God-Man”: Really?
33. The saviour Jesus his human side
34. Redemption #4 The Passover Lamb
35. Why Did Christ Die on the stake
36. Death and Resurrection of Christ
37. The resurrected Lord
38. Today’s Thought “God’s servant will succeed! He will be raised up, exalted, highly honoured!” (Weekend of 2020 June 27-28)
39. Jesus is risen
40. Commemorating the escape from slavery
41. Through Christ’s death you can be adopted as a child of God
42. Mortal Soul and Mortal Psyche #5 Mortality of man and mortality of the spirit
43. Do you purpose that your mouth will not transgress
44. Killing Jesus nabbed 3.7 million viewers on opening night — the biggest audience in history for a National Geographic product
45. Let me keep to “first importance” things

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