About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani? that is, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?" Matthew 27:46
Jesus uttered seven things while hanging on the cross. Even in death, He was teaching us how to live and how to die. This was Jesus' admission of pain without the presence of God. It was a cry of loneliness from this eternal scapegoat. In the Old Testament, a goat bore the sins of the nation, and was led into the wilderness, and was abandoned. Jesus bore the sins of the world to be abandoned. This was the cry of our abandoned scapegoat carrying our sins away. He bore our sins so we would never have to be abandoned. It was the Jesus style.
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