Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Yielded up his spirit (afhken to pneuma). The loud cry may have been Psalms 31:5 as given in Luke 23:46: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." John (John 19:30) gives
It is finished (tetelestai), though which was actually last is not clear. Jesus did not die from slow exhaustion, but with a loud cry.
He breathed out (ecepneusen, Mark 15:37),
sent back his spirit (Matthew 27:50),
gave up his spirit (paredwken to pneuma, John 19:30). "He gave up his life because he willed it, when he willed it, and as he willed it" (Augustine). Stroud (Physical Cause of the Death of Christ) considers the loud cry one of the proofs that Jesus died of a ruptured heart as a result of bearing the sin of the world.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 27:50:
Matthew 27:49
Matthew 27:50
Mark 15:37
Luke 23:46
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