Matthew 26:45-46

It is human to question and it is divine to accept things by faith. It is human to question God’s involvement in our life in the midst of tragedy. It is only with the Holy Spirit within us that we can accomplish what He ask of us. Christ gave up His life to save mine.

The sixth hour was noon. The darkness was not due to an eclipse of the sun, since the Passover occurred at full moon. This was a supernatural occurrence. 

The duplication of “My God, My God” indicates Jesus’ deep sorrow. The fact that Jesus spoke in Aramaic, the tongue of His birth, may be another sign of the extreme stress He was encountering. No human can understand the theological significance of this cry. This was not a cry of defeat, however. Christ was quoting from Ps. 22 and may have been alluding to the great victory that the psalm describes. Psalm 22 is a profound lament psalm that concludes as a triumphant psalm of praise for God’s deliverance. Although this psalm speaks of David’s own distress and the Lord’s deliverance of him, it also prophetically describes in remarkable detail Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. The language David uses to describe his own predicament is prompted by the Holy Spirit. 

Psalm 22
¹ My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? 
Why are You so far from helping Me, 

²⁷ All the ends of the world 
Shall remember and turn to the Lord, 
And all the families of the nations 
Shall worship before You. 

²⁸ For the kingdom is the Lord’s, 
And He rules over the nations. 

Matthew 27:45-46

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. ⁴⁶ And 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?”