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When It’s Finished

St. John 19:30 NKJV So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

John—That You May Believe Jesus’ Final Teaching (vv. 28–30)

It is finished” was not a submissive cry but a shout of victory. In the Greek it was only one word, in the Greek perfect tense, meaning, “It is finished and always will be finished!” What had Christ finished? The Law itself (he had completed and fulfilled it). The Old Testament types in the ceremonial law. The Messianic prophecies. But most of all, he had finished the atonement.

Lifted up was He to die,

“It is finished!” was his cry;

Now in heav’n exalted high:

Hallelujah, what a Savior!

—Philip P. Bliss

His cry of victory came not because he was dying a horrible death, but because “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God” (