What Did Jesus Say at That Time?

To his disciples at the Passover Seder: “This that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end” (Luke 22:37).

To the Father in the Garden: “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42).

To the inner circle disciples: “Why sleep ye? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation” (Luke 22:46).

To the Temple Police: “Whom seek ye? . . . I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way” (John 18:7, 8).

To Pilate: “My kingdom is not of this world [its order, its ways] if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight...I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth....” (John 18:36, 37).

To the women who followed to the crucifixion, weeping: “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children” (Luke 23:28).

On the “accursed tree,” he said, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do?” Was he not including “even” those few Judean leaders who delivered him to die? And does the Heavenly Father hear the prayer of His “beloved Son in Whom He is well pleased”? Most Christians will answer “YES!” How then can anti-Jewishness ever be conceived in the mind of anyone claiming to be a follower of Jesus?

“Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama Sabachthani?” (Matt. 27:46).

A word study on the Hebrew word, Sabachthani, translated as “forsaken”, reveals we have missed something. The word carries the meaning of “mystery – complication”. It seems in his dying moments, he was asking the Father about this. We are challenged to study further the “mystery” mentioned often in the Epistles.

To his mother and the Apostle John, “Behold thy mother . . . behold thy son” (John 19:26, 27).

To all mankind: “It is finished” (John 19:30). Why then do we keep adding? -