MARK—NOTE ON Mark 15:34 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Jesus utters the opening words of Psalms 22:1. He expresses his immense pain at being abandoned by God, which he suffers as a substitute for sinful mankind. See note on Matt. 27:46. Yet the following verses of Psalms 22:1 also anticipate divine intervention on his behalf (compare Hebrews 5:7). Jesus knows why he is experiencing God-forsakenness, just as he knows his death will not be the end of his story.

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