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?
Because Jesus took all of mans sins then and forevermore on his back.



By: Danny Mclemore
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?
From the sixth hour the dark descended on all Earth to the ninth hour. As to the ninth hour Jesus exclaimed to great voice saying: - El?, El?! Lama sabactani? - that means: God mine, God mine, so that you have abandoned to me? - When some of which they were there heard to him, they said: - This man calls to El?as. And one of them ran, immediately took a sponge, it filled it of vinegar, and putting it in a cane, it gave him to drink. But others said: - It leaves, we see if El?as comes to save it. But Jesus cried out again to great voice and gave the spirit. And I have here, the veil of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The Earth shook, and the rocks were divided. The tombs were opened, and many bodies of holy men who had died raised; and left the tombs after the resurrection of him, they went to santa city and they appeared to many. And when the centuri?n and those that with him kept Jesus saw the earthquake and the things which they had happened, feared in great way and said: - Truely this one was Son of God! JESUS HAD TO PASS THOUSANDS OF THINGS FOR TO KNOW THAN HE IS SON OF THE GOD AND DID NOT VALUE IT WHEN HE WAS WHILE STILL ALIVE. BY THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TOWARDS US THE DEATH IN THE CROSS FOR THE SALVATION OUR.



By: JULIO CESAR MONAR MESIAS
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why did JESUS penalty for sin need to include physical and emotiona pain why not just spiritual separation from God?
Jesus, that time is really a man flesh and blood, he substituted himself to save us from our sins. Jesus being God became man to serve us, to redeem us. John 3:16.... I thank God for loving us even though we are sinners... He is so faithful ...He won`t let us go deeper into our sins.... Thank you Jesus for saving me and giving me eternal life... I love you!



By: susan baligod
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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 need to include physical and emotional pain since Jesus identified completely with human beings in order to be able to save them from God`s wrath. we must understand and acknowledge by faith that Jesus was fully human but at the same time he was fully God.so human life, human weakness has no secret to him.



By: andriatsitohaina jaona
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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 physical and emotion pain he went through was to redeem us of the physical and emotional constraints that are in this world and to reveal to us that we are capable of riding over them just like he did, plus spiritual separation which was in ransom to bring us near God, he was the divine sacrifice for mankind, and for this reason man no longer have to shed animal blood as offering. thank you n God bless you!



By: Silas Kaunda Matiku
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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 pain of Jesus is our redemption. Without His physical and emotional pain we would not have been justified..His emotional pain gave us victory over the devil. It gave us authority over the devil.. He said he is our advocate... The physical pain he had has banded the connection between us. He has brought us to a place where we no longer leave by our sensories perception but by faith, where sickness no longer prevails, where we can speak to our infirmities and they we go, where we can say no to the devils plans against our lives. The Bibles says: But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us... He became poor so that we may become rich.....He suffered physical and emotional pain for us to have a happy glamorous life...



By: Desmond A.
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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 used His life to save our lifes. For Son of God comes to save not to be served. prince of peace had done his greatest sacrifice through crucification. Jesus is completely God and completely man. physical pain he received is because the punishment of our sin.



By: xiaoshen Phang
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?
I think that the reason behind is to show mankind that He is the Son of God and the physical pain is to show us physically and let us believe that he has saved us from death and suffering.



By: James Macaraig
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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 had to include physical and emotional pain and not just spiritual separation from God because Jesus was at that time in a physical body-He was a man and all man know how to recognize and relate to the physical suffering of others. The Bible had already chronicled His path to the cross, but without the physical manifestation of that suffering, maybe man would not be able to appreciate to the same extent the magnitude of God`s love demonstrated by the suffering and ultimate death of His only begotten son.


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By: fikile dlamini
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His emotional and physical pais are to remind us as humanbengs we too also may have to suffer humiliation.at times we would believe that all creation is aganist us and what penalties do we have to endure gor our misgivings. The lessons have helped to be more aware of our needs for Jesus -thepurpose for His ministry, sufferings pain and every sort of tial and temptations which may come you way.



By: Alvin Bestr
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