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I have been blessed to do some pastoral counseling. In this counseling it has come to my attention that most people a some point have felt abandonment in their life. People feel lonely, People feel betrayed.
Rob: He was bitter about people who did him wrong but was not hateful...
He had friends who betrayed him but he never betrayed a friend.
One of the worst feelings is when you realize that people are not laughing with you they are laughing at you. Have you ever felt that? In verse 16-20 that is what we see. The people laughed at the Son of God.
The whole company was 1/10 of legion… The stander legion was 6,000 men thus this may have been as many as 600 men.
600 men had the fun with Jesus as they laughed at Him.
The crown of thorns Could have been palm spikes.
By placing the crown on thorns on Jesus’ head the soldiers unknowing and symbolically thrust God’s curse on Adam “thorns” onto Jesus.
You would carry your own cross which was perhaps the loneliest walk of your life. The crossbeam weighed 100 lbs. You would carry it naked. You would die naked. The whole ordeal was designed to make you feel forsaken.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary 15:21–22
The soldiers took Jesus to the place outside but near the city wall (cf. John 19:20) called Golgotha, a Greek transliteration of an Aramaic word meaning The Place of the Skull. The word “Calvary” comes from the Latin Vulgate rendering Calvaria, a variation of calva, “a skull.” Golgotha was a rounded, rocky knoll (not a hill or mountain) vaguely resembling the shape of a human skull.
Wine mixed with myrrh was a primitive painkiller. Jesus did not drink it.
The temple leadership mocked Him. The irony of the taunting of the scribes and chief priests is that Jesus was the only person in history who did not need saving. He did not even need to save Himself. They were the ones who needed saving. You and I are the ones who need saving.
Even the guys crucified with Him taunted Him or insulted Him. verse 32
“You are blessed when they insult you and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of me.
Mark 15:34 (CSB)
And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni?” which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
The only recorded time Jesus prays without saying Abba Father. His statement of My God, My God shows that Jesus had abiding trust in God.
Eloi sounds like the Hebrew name for Elijah. Eliyahu\
Sour wine was the cheap vinaigrette wine that the Roman Soldiers drank. They must have been trying to keep Him alive a little longer.
The loud cry must have been, “It is finished.”
John 19:30
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.
The only people still with Him where some of the women and John and the Roman Centurion in charge of his Crucifixion.
He was abandoned or forsaken by the rest of His disciples.
Mark was writing in Rome to Roman Christians who would be subject to similar ridicule by pagan authorities and would feel at times forsaken.
apart from the mocking of the soldiers or the biting pain of torture of the cross. There was a far deeper spiritual agony endured alone in the darkness. An agony which thanks to the cross we need not have to understand or experience.
Most theologians agree that Jesus was forsaken for a moment because the sins of the world were thrust on Him. This is what the epistles of the New Testament point to.
so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written, Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (CSB)
He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Even if He was not literally forsaken by God, and I believe He was for a moment, it is true that He felt forsaken by God.
Jesus was forsaken by God so that we would never have to be forsaken by God.
The Bible Knowledge Commentary (15:34)
He died forsaken by God so that His people might claim God as their God and never be forsaken (cf. Heb. 13:5).
Hebrews 13:5 (CSB)
I will never leave you or abandon you.
Joshua 1:5 (CSB)
No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. I will be with you, just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or abandon you.
The Lord is the one who will go before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or abandon you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
2 Corinthians 4:9 (CSB)
we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.
He was forsaken but not forgotten.
His buried body began to breath.
Peter preaching in Acts
Acts 2:22–27 (CSB)
“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know. Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him. God raised him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by death. For David says of him: I saw the Lord ever before me; because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices. Moreover, my flesh will rest in hope, because you will not abandon me in Hades or allow your holy one to see decay.
Jesus was forsaken so that you would not be forsaken.
Jesus was forsaken but not forgotten. You are not forsaken nor are you forgotten.