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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Jesus 23: 45-18
Matthew 27:45-50 recorded that Jesus was on the cross from noon to three o’clock in the afternoon. It was a painful torture to Jesus but he was quiet for most of the time. It was until the last hour he cried out a lord voice saying, “My God, my god why have you forsaken me!” It was a heartfelt moving prayer. This was Jesus’ lament and was a plea. Jesus was under stress and pain. He had an intimacy relationship with the Father for a long time. At this critical moment in life, he was left alone in his humanity to experience the sense of divine abandonment that we often feel during times of need and especially when in sin. He was forsaken by his followers, betrayed and denied by the disciples and now surrounded by people who insulted him. In his cry, Jesus called the Lord “my” God two times in an act of trust and faith. His cry was an appeal addressed to God who seemed so far and seemed to have abandoned him. The cry expressed all the sadness of Jesus who was facing the moment of death. The tone of the dying moments as recorded in Mark 15:33-37 was similar to Matthew. Jesus was under the heavy weight of a mission to bear our sins and was an exceedingly heavy at this point. He cried out with the feeling of abandonment to the Father who had intimacy relationship with him. …show more content…
Jesus was not into the grave or into the unknown darkness but into the hands of God. He did not murmur or complain against God. He entrusted himself into Father’s hand and did not abandon his faith in God's love for him. He took a suffering path but he trusted in the divine victory. In here Jesus spoke a word of surrender. He gave up his human life to his Father who gave it to him years ago. At the end he let go his human life in order to embrace the life that the Father offered

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