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 / EventSignificance (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?
The reason why Jesus Penalty for ?Sin? need to include physical and emotional pain is for us to understand that, since He Himself has gone through suffering and temptation, He is able to help us when we are being tempted. Hebrews 2:18



By: Rosemary Ndenderu
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?
As a sinner, I am Christ`s executioner, whom He chose to forgive before I really understood what my actions caused. Jesus Christ bore or became everything that could separate me from His Father`s love and so keep me from heaven. That God turned His face from His only Son; that the heavens and earth itself groaned at His passing compels me to seriously grasp the enormity of the chasm by which sin divides me from God, yet was bridged by Christ`s torment, pain, abuse, suffering, curses, wounds, rejection, depression, nakedness, hunger and thirst that I might be able to be called a child of God at His expense leaves me speechless. I who am seemingly unable to depart from sin in one form or another, have been given the greatest gift of love by one whom by ignorance and selfishness, I hardly even know. Forgive me Jesus of my sins, by Your righteousness and Yours alone, I am healed. Truely You are the God of Peace and Love. Jesus I adore you. AMEN.



By: David Wratt
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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 became human and He took the flesh of human to live among the people and do His Ministry.And moreover, He suffering in place of man, so Jesus had to go through physical and emotional pain apart from spiritual separation from God.



By: W Moba Langphong
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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 did for us he loves us and he did`nt want us to go through it like he did



By: Emma Adamson
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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 felt physical pain as well emotional because he was made man by God. So that the people will understand that Jesus paid for our sins in all aspects. Spritual, emotional and most of all spirtually because He was separated from His God His Father.



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?
In every way, Jesus became man. This was to show us the way we should live our lives. And the greatest pain in my view point is the spiritual separation from God. What greater pain is there?



By: Susan Fry
Category: Jesus` Last Words, Final Hours on Cross and Jesus` Death
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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 Son of God. He gave Jesus for us. He died and rose again. Of course he felt the pain physically and emotionaly because He is Human. The Word will come to pass.



By: Lisa Balan
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?
I think he had to suffer physically and emotionally as he wanted to take all sufferings that people go through on earth so that we can be healed in his actions. Also, as he came to earth like a human being, he had to go through human sufferings to make us see that he has gone through all this before us. Through these sufferings, whenever we complain and suffer about an illness or whatever, we will always remember that he has gone through them all even if he didn`t deserve it.



By: Nathalie Desvaux de Marigny
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Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God?
I think that each person is a whole person - of spirit, body and mind. Therefore for Jesus to show that he had done a COMPLETE work of salvation for us, he had to experience the pain and suffering in all the aspects of being a person. He suffered in every aspect of life, that also affects us and and where there are struggles, so when we receive His gift of salvation, it is complete - spiritual, bodily, and emotionally- we are totally free.



By: Pauline-Rae Johnson
Category: Jesus` Last Words, Final Hours on Cross and Jesus` Death
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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 included physical and emotional pain because He came as God`s only begotten Son in the flesh and flesh is vulnerable to physical and emotional pain.



By: Patty
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