Matthew 27:45 - Forerunner Commentary

Matthew 27:45

43 ^aHe trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

44 ^aEven the robbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing.

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45 ^aNow from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.

46 And about the ninth hour ^aJesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, ^b“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

47 Some of those who stood there, when they heard that, said, “This Man is calling for Elijah!”

48 Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, ^afilled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink.

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Matthew 27:45-53

So Jesus' cry, "Why have You forsaken Me?" is the clearest indication of the time when the sins of the world were placed upon Him. Remember that was something that the high priest had to do in Leviticus 16. He placed his hands on the head of the live goat and he transferred all the sins of Israel to the goat to be borne away. All the sins, all the iniquities, all the transgressions of Israel were placed on the live goat's head.

You know, God would never forsake His Son—His beloved Son—except for the fact that He was at this point the most repulsive being in the universe with the evil of all human sin, every human sin, on Him. The weight of that must have been terrible for Jesus. To suddenly have to face the guilt of all humanity, all that sin placed upon Him. And it was equally horrible for the Father to see His Son bearing all of those sins.

Isaiah 59:2 says that our sin separates us from God and that is exactly what happened here. Our, our sins, not Jesus' sins. It was our sins that caused the Father to forsake His Son there on the cross. And Jesus, it was the first time that He had been apart from His Father forever in that sense. Because He said His Father was always with Him. But not this time. Not when He was forsaken for all the evils of mankind's sins.

And the creation responded. Their God, the creation's God, had just died. And the inanimate earth rocked. The veil of the Temple was torn top to bottom to show that access to God had been opened by the death of the Savior. That sinless perfect Lamb of God had done the job. Had done the work that would open up the way for us to come right into the Holy of Holies. Reconciled to God, justified, and have a relationship with Him.

Excerpted from Jesus in the Feasts (Part Four): Atonement

Matthew 27:45-46

Christ is a teacher, the enlightener, the guide, the Savior of humanity. He gives us light, that is, He gives us understanding, truth, and wisdom. So Jesus, as the One who brings the true knowledge of God, is the light of humanity. And when people tried to extinguish the light of men, darkness fell when Jesus was being crucified.

So the New Testament portrays Jesus as the personification of light, of divine illumination.

Excerpted from The Radiance of God's Glory

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