Jesus` Last Words - Jesus` Final Hours on Cross

Jesus` Last Words, Final Hours on Cross and Jesus` Death
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Final words of Jesus indicated completion of personal mission
Words of witnesses emphasized prominence of Jesus
Death (from asphyxiation) was conclusive
Simultaneous external events intensified the drama

Words / Event	Significance (Traditional Spiritual Interpretation)
Words: "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."	Jesus prays for the executioners who do not understand or believe that Jesus is God.
Words: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"	Jesus (quoting a line from the Jewish scriptures) cries out at a moment in time when he is not just physically punished, but spiritually separated from God, his Father. God separates Himself from Jesus because all of the evils of mankind are placed on Jesus. This spiritual separation is the heaviest sacrifice which Jesus pays of behalf of mankind, so that mankand does not need to suffer spiritual separation from God.
Words: "It is finished."	Once Jesus felt he had borne the penalty for the evils of mankind, he declared his mission as accomplished. This relates to Jesus' earlier mission statement to sacrifice himself for others: "The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Jesus quoted by Matthew 20:28)
Words: "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."	These words, spoken to a thief also being executed with Jesus, indicates Jesus' belief that Jesus would continue to live in paradise (heaven) and that Jesus can choose who will be there with him.
Words: "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."	Jesus believes his spirit, not body, now goes to heaven with God.
Event: Earthquake (recorded in Matthew 27:52)	Highlights severity of the moment.
Event: Skies Darken (recorded in Matthew 27:45 and Luke 23:44)	Highlights severity of the moment.
Event: Temple veil splits in half (recorded in Matthew 27:51, Mark 15:38, Luke 23:44)	This event signified that there is no more division between man and God. In the Jewish temple, a veil blocked the area known as the "holy of holies." It was recognized as a place where God might be present. Only once a year was the chief priest able to enter the area to offer a sacrifice for the sins of the people. The symbolism of the veil being torn in two is that with Jesus paying the penalty for mankind's sins, sacrifices were no longer necessary, and everyone can enter the presence of God.
Event: Spear thrust into Jesus' side (recorded in John 19:34)	Roman soldier confirms Jesus is dead.
Statement by witnessing Roman soldier: "Certainly this was a righteous man!" (recorded in Luke 23:47)	Jesus' innocence is recognized.
Statement by witnessing Roman soldier: "Truly this was the Son of God." (recorded in Matthew 27:54 and Mark 15:38)	Jesus' prominence is recognized.

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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

Its had to understand why God choose physical but i think God intended for man to see the suffering that Jesus whent through in the flesh for them to relate with thier own sufering fand for us to realize that we need Jesus because if Jesus endured we can also endure in Jesus name

By: angelina ngesa
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

For God had made Him to be sin, for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God.Humanity sin against God, and God sent His son to come and take our place, so what ever punishment we were supposed to carried were laid on Him, that is emotional and physical pain were put on Him..God did that to indicate His unconditional love for humanity.

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By: ZACHARIA TOPPOH
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

Jesus suffered physical and emotional pain so as to carry all evils of mankind. God sent Jesus to save all makind and to take away all our sins so that makind does not need to suffer spiritual separation from God. That means Jesus took our place and suffered as to join us with God. If Jesus had not sufferes then we would still live in the darknes, and according to His words, he will keep a place for each and everyone of us so that when our mission ends here on earth, we can go back and live with God in Paradise ''heaven'' forever.

By: Maria Simao
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

Jesus penalty for sin include physical and emotional pain so that man will truly understand the burden he bore for our sake. If it had been only spiritual, there is no how man will know that he suffered for us because Christ was the only one that saw the separation from God and then cried out, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? and yet men around there were mocking him when he cried out.

By: Oby Alozie
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

Many people suffer much in life. But I have never known a man who is so willing, so wholehearted and so purposeful in all his sufferings like Jesus Christ. His sufferings are the most meaningful sufferings in all eternity. The paradoxical unity and the true meaning of God's love and justice are fully revealed and taught to mankind, not in classroom and textbooks, but in the historical record of the Suffering Servant. He was silent when it came to protecting His own life, but when asked to confess the truth, He did not delay but immediately confessed His calling, knowing full well that it would cost Him His life. He firmly confessed before the religious leaders, ?I am the Son of God.? ''Luke 22:70'' and before the political leader, ?I am the King of the Jews.? ''Matt.27:11''. In His extreme pain, there was one thing in His mind and one strong passion in His heart. He was fully determined to make it to the Calvary. He must summon all His energy to reach Golgotha to be crucified there as the Sacrifice for sin. He wanted to taste all the sufferings written about Him in the Scriptures. He wanted to drink the full cup of wrath so that salvation for mankind could be accomplished. The Lord is merciful and just, hence as certain as there are days of His mercy, there are days of judgement if we have not sought refuge in His mercy. Seek the Lord while He may be found, call on Him when He is near. ''Isa.55:6''

By: Olivia Babirye
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

In order for man to understand the complexities of what Jesus had to go through ''and what Jesus was telling them'' they had to see what Jesus had to go through, both physically and emotionally. As stipulated in Luke 23, only after Jesus died, did they fully realize that Jesus was righteous, and that He died to save our sins

By: Harriet Costello
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

Jesus penalty for our sins nedd to be physical and emotional for us to feel and realized that He was sent by the HOly father to redeemed us for our sins . He was made just like one of us human for us to feel also th pain he is suffering. His emotions and physical sufferings must be felt by us to realized the pain he is suffering.

By: linda pascual
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

Hello everyone, Jesus penalty for sin included physical and emotional pain because God manifested Jesus in the flesh and this means that he had the flesh like any human being have and this meant that he had to be hurt like anyboday .But then Jesus had the power not to go that far but he just wanted to make the world understand that he has paid the penalty of sin and when he resuracted that`s when he said that I have the keys of the heavens and earth.

By: Aorone Wright
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

Because God knows humanbeings, they are too hard to be easy accept things. If they haven`t seen a body`s suffering for them, they could hardly believe. So God arrange both physical and emotional pain.

By: Tansy Teng
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?

He is the lamb of sacrifice, How do you sacrifice a lamb? Jesus paid for us a great price in order to save us. He was crushed for our sins in every dimension of his life. When He commands to love God He says that we must love God with all our mind, heart, soul. So He loved us to the end with all his life, with all his body as the lamb of sacrifice

By: Julio Cesar Neyra Pinto
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