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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. From twelve o’clock at noon, according to the Roman and Jewish time, till three in the afternoon, there was a thick darkness,-whether over all the world, or only over the land of Palestine, we cannot very well say. It was not an eclipse of the sun, it was a miracle...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. Some have thought that this darkness covered the whole world, and so caused even a heathen to exclaim, “Either the world is about to expire, or the God who made the world is in anguish.” This darkness was supernatural; it was not an eclipse. The sun could no longer...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 "every day the daily sacrifice was slain at eight and a half, and was offered up at nine and a half:'' about which time also the passover was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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? In order that the sacrifice of Christ might be complete, it pleased the Father to forsake his well-beloved Son. Sin was laid on Christ, so God must turn away his face from the Sin-bearer. To be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Some of them that stood there,.... Near the cross, looking on, and mocking at him, when they heard that; the words, "Eli, Eli", spoken by Christ, said, this man calleth for Elias. These could not be the Roman soldiers that said so, who had no notion of Elias; rather the Hellenistic Jews, who not so well understanding the Hebrew language, hearing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. They knew better, yet they jested at the Saviour’s prayer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Mocking him even in his prayers, for they well knew the difference...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. They knew better, yet they jested at the Saviour’s prayer. Wickedly, willfully, and scornfully, they turned his death-shriek into ridicule.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And straightway one of them ran and took a sponge,.... Which was not far from the cross, where a vessel full of vinegar was set, John 19:29, and filled it with vinegar; dipping it into it, it sucked it up. Some of these sponges had leathern handles to them. (r) And put it on a reed; a stalk of hyssop; [See comments on John 19:29], and gave him to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, It always seems to me very remarkable that the spunge, which is the very lowest form of animal life, should have been brought into contact with Christ, who is at the top of all life. In his death, the whole circle of creation was completed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Christ’s strength was not exhausted; his last word was uttered “with a loud voice”, like the shout of a conquering warrior. He need...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. A person in such agony as Jesus was suffering might have mentioned many pangs that he was enduring; but it was necessary for him to say, “I thirst,” in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The rest said, let be,.... The others, to whom he belonged, that fetched the sponge, said to him, let him alone, keep at a distance from him, give him nothing to drink: let us see whether Elias will come to save him; whom the Jews looked upon to be the forerunner of the Messiah, and therefore suggest, that should he come to save him, they would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; That rending of the great veil of the temple was intended to symbolize the end of Judaism; the horror of the sanctuary that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus, when he had cried again,.... "A second time", as the Persic version; for he had cried once before, and expressed the words he did, as in Matthew 27:46, what he now delivered were, "Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit", Lu 23:46, and "it is finished", John 19:30, which he said with a loud voice; which showed the vehemency of his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. You know what he said when he cried with a loud voice: “It is finished.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Christ’s strength was not exhausted; his last word was uttered with a loud voice, like the shout of a conquering warrior. And what a word it was, “It is finished”! Thousands of sermons have been preached upon that little sentence; but who can tell all the meaning that lies...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Christ’s strength was not exhausted; his last word was uttered with a loud voice, like the shout of a conquering warrior. And what a word it was, “It is finished”! Thousands of sermons have been preached upon that little sentence, but who can tell all the meaning that lies...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And behold, the vail of the temple was rent in twain,.... Just at the time that Christ spake with so loud a voice, and expired, and which was at the time of the offering up of the evening incense; and so must be seen by the priest that was then offering, and those that assisted him, for the incense altar was near the vail; and which must be a very...