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Mark 15:33-41

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

There was darkness over the whole land until this ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. And one ran and filled a spunge full of...

Mark 15:34

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,.... [See comments on Matthew 27:46]; saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? in Matthew it is, "Eli, Eli", Both "Eli" and "Eloi", are Hebrew words, and signify the same; and are both used in Psalms 22:1, from whence the whole is taken: which is, being interpreted, my God, my God, why hast thou...

Mark 15:34

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? There was a denser darkness over his spirit than was over all the land, and out of that darkness came this cry of agony.

Mark 15:34

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It is, “My El, my strong God, my mighty One, why hast thou forsaken me?” — the bitterest words that were ever uttered by mortal lips, and expressing the quintessence of agony. Alas! that...

Mark 15:35

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And some of them that stood by,.... The cross: when they heard [it]; the loud voice of Jesus, and the words he uttered: said, behold he calleth Elias; whom they ignorantly, or wilfully took for Eloi; [See comments on Matthew 27:47].

Mark 15:35

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. Did they misunderstand his bitter cry of woe? Could they mistake what he meant? Was it not, on the part of these people that stood by, a willful wicked witticism upon what our Lord Jesus had said? We fear that it was so.

Mark 15:36

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar,.... Christ at the same time saying, I thirst; see John 19:28; and put it on a reed; an hyssop stalk, John 19:29; and gave him to drink; and so fulfilled a prophecy in Psalms 69:21; saying, or "they said", as the Syriac version reads it; not he that fetched the sponge, but the others that were with...

Mark 15:36

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. Jesus did receive this vinegar, and so fulfilled Psa_69:21 : “In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”

Mark 15:36-37

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. His last words were, “It is finished.” “It is finish’d!” — Oh what pleasure Do these charming words afford! Heavenly...

Mark 15:37

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And Jesus cried with a loud voice,.... A second time, and said the words which are in Lu 23:46 and in John 19:30 and gave up the ghost. The Syriac version renders it, "and finished": his life, his days, his race, his ministry, and the work which was given him to do; [See comments on Matthew 27:50].

Mark 15:37-38

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. Even as the flesh of Christ, which is the veil of the Incarnate God, was rent, so now was the veil of mystery taken away. The temple in her sorrow rent her veil. The old ceremonial law passed away with this token of...

Mark 15:38

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And the vail of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom. At which time also there was an earthquake, and the rocks were rent, and graves were opened, as Matthew relates, [See comments on Matthew 27:51], [See comments on Matthew 27:52].

Mark 15:38-39

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when the centurion, which stood over against him, The officer who had charge of the arrangements for the execution: “when the centurion, which stood over against him,” —

Mark 15:39

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

And when the centurion, which stood over against him,.... To watch him, that nobody released him, and that he did not come down from the cross himself; saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost; that he cried with so loud and strong a voice, and the next moment expired: he said, truly this man was the Son of God; and so said the rest of the...

Mark 15:39

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God. Convinced by the cross. Oh, the triumphs of Christ! The last word he speaks won this testimony from the centurion in charge of the crucifixion. Now we will read part of Luke’s narrative. This exposition...

Mark 15:39

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God. Probably saying a great deal more than he understood. There was something so extraordinary about this central Sufferer that the Centurion could not understand who he could be unless he was truly “the Son of God.”

Mark 15:40

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

There were also women looking on afar off,.... At some distance from the cross, observing what was said and done; among whom was Mary Magdalene; who had received great favours from Christ: and Mary the mother of James the less; or "little", so called to distinguish him from James the son of Zebedee, and because he might be little of stature: nor...

Mark 15:40-41

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem. Where was Peter? We know that John was near the cross; but James and the...

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