It is Finished

My Work is Finished

John 19:30 “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”

Is finished Is a comprehensive word And a comfortable one. It is finished That is The malice And enmity Of his Persecutors Had not done their worst When he had received That last indignity In the vinegar They gave him he said This is the last I am now going out of their reach For the wicked cease from troubling

It is finished That is the Council and commandment of his father concerning his suffering was now fulfilled It was a determinate counsel And he took care To see every Iota and to tittle exactly answered Acts 2:23 “Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:” He said When he entered upon his suffering Father thy will be done And now he said with pleasure is done. It was his meet And drink to finish His Work

Jesus declares “It is finished” after receiving vinegar, then bows his head and dies. (John 19:30) This statement carries profound theological weight across multiple dimensions.

The proclamation encompasses the completion of redemption itself. Christ’s utterance signals that salvation’s entire accomplishment—all its components—finds its source in his death alone, with perfection of salvation contained in him rather than sought elsewhere.

Jesus declares that those ancient practices possessed no inherent power to atone for sins or appease God’s wrath, whereas his sacrifice now exhibits true salvation to the world.1

Jesus spoken with a loud voice conveying triumph rather than defeat.

Though Jesus appeared as a pathetic victim, he celebrated the universe’s greatest triumph: the work his Father assigned him was complete, his atoning work finished,

redemption for sinners accomplished,

and he victorious.2

The symbolic dimensions deepen further. Jesus receives the vinegar not merely as a soldier’s gift but as his Father’s gift—part of the cup the Father gave him to drink to complete his work and fulfill Scripture,

demonstrating his readiness to do the Father’s will to the end.

I’ve heal the sick

open blinded eyes

Set captives free

and now i am giving myself sacrifice for you

I have open the door