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Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?
MATTHEW 27:46 hli hli lema sabacqani Instead of hli (or hlei), representing the Hebrew yliae (“my God”), the text of several witnesses, including a B 33 copsa, bo eth, was assimilated to the reading...
Verse 46. _MY GOD! MY GOD! WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME!_] These words are quoted by our Lord from Psalms 22:1; they are of very great importance, and should be carefully considered. Some suppose "that...
ELI, ELI ... - This language is not pure Hebrew nor Syriac, but a mixture of both, called commonly “Syro-Chaldaic.” This was probably the language which the Saviour commonly spoke. The words are taken...
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
THE DEATH OF JESUS (Mark 15:33 *, Luke 23:44). Matthew 27:48 f. is to be preferred to Mark 15:36. vv....
From twelve o'clock midday darkness came over the earth until three o'clock in the afternoon. About three o'clock in the afternoon Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" (that is...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
ABOUT. Greek. _peri._ App-104. Eli, Eli, lama sabachtnani. The English transliteration of the Greek, which is the Greek transliteration of the Aram,. _eli_,. _eli_, _lamah 'azabhani._ The whole expres...
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30. St Mark's account differs little from St Matthew's. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the rob...
_Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?_ (Psalms 22:1). _Eli_is the Hebrew form. In Mark 15:34 the Aramaic words are preserved exactly as they were pronounced by Jesus. The repetition, "My God! My God!" gives a...
ἨΛῚ ἨΛΊ, ΛΕΜᾺ ΣΑΒΑΧΘΑΝΕΊ; (Psalms 22:1). Sh’baktani is an Aramaic form and occurs in the Chaldee paraphrase for the Hebrew azabtani. Such quotations of the Aramaic are very valuable and interesting as...
THE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30 St Mark’s account differs little from St Matthew’s. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the robbe...
Ver 45. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. 46. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to s...
_JESUS' DEATH AND BURIAL MATTHEW 27:32-66:_ The power of the cross makes salvation possible. The sign over His head read, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." He is far more though, "Now to the King...
ΆΝΕΒΌΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΒΟΆΩ (G310) кричать, ΉΛ (G2241)_евр._ “Боже Мой!” ΛΕΜΆ (G2982)_евр._ почему? ΣΑΒΑΧΘΆΝΝ (G4518) арам. “Почему Ты Меня покинул?” (Allen). Не в смысле “ушел”, а в смысле...
JESUS CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, &C.— A little before he expired, Jesus repeated the first verse of the 22nd Psalm, pronouncing it in the Syriac dialect, which was the common language of the cou...
DARKNESS AND DEJECTION TEXT: 27:45-50 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli...
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof he would not drink They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drin...
29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3. 30 See Isa_50:6. 31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10. 31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
27:46 saying, (h-13) Psalms 22:1 ....
ELI, ELI, etc.] Psalms 22:1. It is not certain whether Jesus spoke in Hebrew or Aramaic, for most MSS contain a mixture of both. These words are a cry of the human nature of Jesus, which alone could s...
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI. — The cry is recorded only by St. Matthew and St. Mark. The very syllables or tones dwelt in the memory of those who heard and understood it, and its absence from St. John’...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
_Darkness without and within_ (Mark 15:33-36; Luke 23:44-46)....
ἠλί, ἠλί, etc.: the opening words of Psalms 22, but partly at least in Aramaic not in Hebrew, wholly so as they stand in Codex [155] (W.H [156]), ἐλωί, ἐλωί, etc., corresponding exactly to the version...
THE BROKEN HEART AND THE RENT VEIL Matthew 27:45-56 With hushed hearts we stand in the presence of “that sight.” It is the tragedy of time; the one supreme act of self-surrender; the unique unapproac...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou (o) forsaken me? (o) That is, in this misery: And this crying...
JESUS EXPIRES AMID THE DARKNESS Luke 23:44-46; John 19:28-30; Mark 15:33-37; Matthew 27:45-50. “ And from the s
"And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. (33) And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, ...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
_CHRIST FORSAKEN_ ‘My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?’ Matthew 27:46 A darkness had overspread the land, and there was darkness in the Saviour’s soul. We may not follow Him, but the awfulne...
46._And about the ninth hour Jesus cried. _Though in the _cry _which Christ uttered a power more than human was manifested, yet it was unquestionably drawn from him by intensity of sorrow. And certain...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
AND ABOUT THE NINTH HOUR,.... Or three o'clock in the afternoon, which was about the time of the slaying and offering of the daily sacrifice, which was an eminent type of Christ. The Jews say i, that...
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Ver. 46. _Jesus cried with a loud voice_] Theref...
_About the ninth hour_ Just before he expired; _Jesus cried with a loud voice_ Our Lord's great agony probably continued these three whole hours, at the conclusion of which he thus cried out, while he...
ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI; a phrase in the Chaldaic language, as then spoken in Judea, explained in the last part of the verse. Psalms 22:1....
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
45-50 During the three hours which the darkness continued, Jesus was in agony, wrestling with the powers of darkness, and suffering his Father's displeasure against the sin of man, for which he was n...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:50"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Then, also, they say that the passions which she endured were indicated by the Lord upon the cross. Thus, when He said, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? "...
Matthew 27:46 And G1161 about G4012 ninth G1766 hour G5610 Jesus G2424 out G310 (G5656) loud G3173 voice...
‘Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour, and about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, “My God, my God...
THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54). In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as ‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
DIVINE VINDICATION. JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD (27:45-54). By now Jesus had been on the cross about three hours, and around noon an extraordinary event took place. For over the whole land there came gros...
Matthew 27:46. AND ABOUT THE NINTH HOUR. During the three hours of darkness, our Lord was silent. He seems not to have become gradually exhausted, for after nearly six hours on the cross, according to...
This section describes the _central fact of the world's history_. The accounts of the four Evangelists agree perfectly as to the main points; but each mentions circumstances omitted by the others. Mat...
MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME? (Θεε μου, θεε μου, ινα τ με εγκατελιπεσ;). Matthew first transliterates the Aramaic, according to the Vatican manuscript (B), the words used by Jesus: _Elo...
WHY (Psalms 22:3) gives the answer to this significant and terrible cry:...
Matthew 27:45 The Cry from the Depths. I. We have to speak about the darkness. Note (1) that it was a darkness which science is unable to explain. It was not the darkness of night, for it began at tw...
Matthew 27:46 "Why hast Thou forsaken Me?" May we dare to answer that desolate cry? may we presume to take up the question and say, "Lord, it was for us men, and for our salvation?" I. First, that we...
Matthew 27:26 _(with Mark 15:15)_ Christ on the Cross. Christ on the Cross is our subject. You know His history, And when you read, "The people stood beholding" you will be ready to add, "And no won...
Matthew 27:32. _And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross._ Perhaps they were afraid that Christ would die from exhaustion; so they compell...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they...
Our Lord was brought before the Roman governor Pilate. He was anxious to let Jesus go; but he was a weak-minded man, easily swayed by the noisy cry of the people, prompted by the chief priests and eld...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
AT ABOUT THREE O'CLOCK. Jesus has been on the cross about six hours. JESUS CRIED WITH A LOUD SHOUT. Some think that God had to briefly withdraw his "presence" from Christ, so he could experience death...
_My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?_ THE FORSAKEN CHRIST the desertion itself is plain. “Why hast Thou forsaken Me?” Then He felt Himself to be forsaken? The Divine nature could not be separa...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:45 After being on the cross for about six hours (compare v. Matthew 27:45 with Mark 15:25
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:46 ELI, ELI, LEMA SABACHTHANI? Jesus quotes Psalms 22:1, speaking in Aramaic, the everyday language of his time. My God,
Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:45. FROM THE SIXTH HOUR.—The first three Gospels agree as to time and fact. Assuming them to follow the usual Jewish reckoning (as in Acts 2:15; Acts 3:1;...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
Hebrews 5:7; Isaiah 53:10; John 19:28; Lamentations 1:12; Luke 23:46
Ninth hour. "Early on Friday afternoon the new course of priests, of Levites, and of the 'stationary men' who were to be the representatives of all Israel, arrived Jerusalem, and having prepared thems...
About the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice — Our Lord's great agony probably continued these three whole hours, at the conclusion of which be thus cried out, while he suffered from God himsel...