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" At the ninth hour, Jesus utters a despairing cry: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”104 Jesus drew this lament of utter God-forsakenness from Psalm 22:1, which states, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?” In some mysterious way beyond our human understanding, Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, is cut off and separated from God because he is bearing the sin of humanity and enduring God’s wrath as a substitute for and in place of sinful humans.105 Of course, Jesus knows how Psalm 22 ends—in vindication—and may be reminding us that forsakenness is not the end of the story. "

Andreas J. Köstenberger , The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived


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Andreas J. Köstenberger quote : At the ninth hour, Jesus utters a despairing cry: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”104 Jesus drew this lament of utter God-forsakenness from Psalm 22:1, which states, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?” In some mysterious way beyond our human understanding, Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, is cut off and separated from God because he is bearing the sin of humanity and enduring God’s wrath as a substitute for and in place of sinful humans.105 Of course, Jesus knows how Psalm 22 ends—in vindication—and may be reminding us that forsakenness is not the end of the story.