When Jesus said eli eli lama sabachthani what was he saying?

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If he was asking god then does that implicitly mean that he was not god.
If so then who is god? Is what jesus spoke above aramaic?

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22 Responses to “When Jesus said eli eli lama sabachthani what was he saying?”

Helen on April 14th, 2009 12:50 am

He felt the sin of the world on His shoulders and since He never sinned He did not feel God’s presence then.

Jesus was 100 % human and 100% God. He had given up some of His God glory to become a man. When He died He took His glory back and not He is in full glory = at the right hand of God
W r y on April 17th, 2009 6:56 am

Roughly translated “Why you dirty double-crosser.”

(God had told Jesus that a legion of angels was on its way to rescue him, but they never showed up.)
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PROBLEM JPAS on April 18th, 2009 8:12 pm

He was reciting psalm 22 please read it. You will find it very descriptive of all that was going on during the Crucifixion.
Shinigami (FAC) weeaboo on April 19th, 2009 8:36 pm

a really really big “ouch”
Meg M on April 22nd, 2009 9:49 pm

He was quoting Psalm 22.
theone78 on April 23rd, 2009 5:46 pm

In those awful moments, Jesus was expressing His feelings of abandonment as God placed the sins of the world on Him – and because of that had to “turn away” from Jesus. As Jesus was feeling that weight of sin, He was experiencing separation from God for the only time in all of eternity. It was at this time that 2 Corinthians 5:21 occurred, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus became sin for us, so He felt the loneliness and abandonment that sin always produces, except that in His case, it was not His sin – it was ours.

He died in our place, on our account, that He might bring us near to God.
svnthdysthsbbth on April 25th, 2009 12:36 am

It was to redeem us that Jesus lived and suffered and died. He became “a Man of Sorrows,” that we might be made partakers of everlasting joy. God permitted His beloved Son, full of grace and truth, to come from a world of indescribable glory, to a world marred and blighted with sin, darkened with the shadow of death and the curse. He permitted Him to leave the bosom of His love, the adoration of the angels, to suffer shame, insult, humiliation, hatred, and death. “The chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5. Behold Him in the wilderness, in Gethsemane, upon the cross! The spotless Son of God took upon Himself the burden of sin. He who had been one with God, felt in His soul the awful separation that sin makes between God and man. This wrung from His lips the anguished cry, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” Matthew 27:46. It was the burden of sin, the sense of its terrible enormity, of its separation of the soul from God–it was this that broke the heart of the Son of God.
Suspended on April 25th, 2009 2:42 am

1. My God, my God why has thou forsaken me?
2. He is the son of God.
3. His father.
4. Yes.
by His grace on April 25th, 2009 11:23 pm

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Are you forgetting that, when Christ walked this earth, He was still 100% God, but also 100% man? He refers to His Father many times as an authority figure, not just on the cross. This is understood as Jesus crying out physically, as a broken body and spiritually as He was taking the sins of the world upon Himself. He was in anguish both physically and spiritually, and cried out to His Father.
Michael K on April 27th, 2009 8:47 am

“God, God, why have you forsaken me?”

In some circles, Jesus is God and yet separate. Yes, what Jesus spoke IS Aramaic.
IndyRomeo325 on April 27th, 2009 2:39 pm

” My God My God, Why have you forsaken me .”
Franhusda on April 29th, 2009 7:03 pm

If you would care to take the time to read the most accurate english Bible
You would know the answer :

Matthew 27:46 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?

May God bless you as you study His Word
Natassia on May 2nd, 2009 5:17 am

He was calling attention to the fulfillment of Psalm 22.
chrstnwrtr on May 5th, 2009 7:03 am

He was addressing God (and yes, He is God so He was addressing God from his human form).

It means “Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me.” And yes, Jesus spoke Aramaic.
microbopeep on May 5th, 2009 1:30 pm

“God why have you forsaken me?”
Bub on May 6th, 2009 4:55 am

He was praying the 22nd Psalm, confirming for those in the crowd at the Crucifixion. that he was the Son of God
dandmrs on May 7th, 2009 5:42 pm

The scripture in question is in Matthew 27:

” From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” ["Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" in King James Version Bible] — which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ( Matthew 27:45-46, NIV)
Here is the Greek text: hli hli
Eli, Eli (or Eloi, Eloi): literally God, God

lama
lama or lamma: literally why

I guess that about covers it..
Jim from SSI, GA on May 8th, 2009 7:54 am

While on the cross, shortly before His death, Christ was praying Psalm 22 (Psalm 21 in some Bibles).
Like any good Jew of His time, Christ probable had most of the psalms memorized, and was praying this one.
Many times, Matthew and other Evangelists, in quoting Jesus praying the psalms, would not record the whole psalm, but just the 1st line of the psalm, not needing to record the whole psalm (which was already recorded in the Old Testament). They presumed the reader already knew the psalm.

He was not despairing of His Father’s presence, but expressing in the Psalmists own words, that God His Father “seemed’ absent in the midst of His difficulty.

First it was Judas who betrayed Him, then it was Simon Peter who disowned Him, and now…? Now, was the Father about to do the same?? Well, it certainly “seemed” that way, and who knew?, maybe even His Father was next?? What??? Well, it “seemed” that His Father was so far from Him. But that is only if you read the first line of the Psalm. There is a happy ending! Read the WHOLE Psalm (and don’t read a Scripture verse out of context as too many Christians do).
The Psalm ends on a note of triumph, and victory through God, and hope. If you read the whole Psalm you will see this.
Verses 10-12, 20-22: unshaken confidence in His heavenly Father;
verses 23-27: the grateful praise of the redeemed,
verses 30-32: the glory of God and His beloved Son.

The Psalm end in a triumph, a victory for God’s people who hold out till the end.
Hope this helps,
Jim
Donna <>< on May 9th, 2009 12:18 am

He was saying “My God my God, why hast thou forsaken Me” because He was hanging on the cross with all the sins of the world upon Him. And as He was doing this, God turned away from Him because He couldn’t stand to see all the sins on His Son. The trinity is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. This means that even though they are one and the same, they can do separate thing. So while God the Father sent His Son to the earth, He was independently able to work in people’s lives from Heaven. Jesus took on a physical body when He came to earth, and His mission was to die on the cross for our sins. He essentially became the “sacrificial lamb” because He was sinless and God had always required a lamb of perfection to be given to cover people’s sins before Jesus came to make it unnecessary for us to continue the ritual. In those Bible days Jesus would have known Hebrew and Aramaic as those were the two languages of the Jew of that time.
creekgirl1234 on May 10th, 2009 12:35 am

He was saying, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
He was God, the Son in the person of Jesus asking God, the Father. With the Holy Spirit they make up the Trinity, three in one. Kind of like three people who make up one family.
This phrase is in Aramaic. I’ve read that it hurt God so much to see His Son dying that He couldn’t look on the sin that Jesus had taken on Himself, the sin of the world. Jesus was the only one qualified to pay the price.
Preacher's Daughter on May 10th, 2009 3:46 am

When Jesus cried out “Eli Eli loma sabachthani”, He was asking ” My God, my God why has thou forsaken me?”

Jesus is God in a body, He is God.
God the Father, is God and God the Holy Spirit is God.
All three are 100% God.

You are body, soul and spirit and you are 100% human.
Alohanui on May 13th, 2009 3:16 am

I would like to add just one thought to the others. Please
remember that Jesus was in his HUMAN BODY. He was
suffering just as we would. He was not above the extreme pain and anguish that was being suffered not only for physical pain, but all the sins of every person on earth.
Jesus was in constant contact with His Father at all times. It is my own belief that during this excruciating time and considering the payment that the Lord was making, that for an instant the pain of the Father was more than HE could bear also. I think there was a momentary split in the contact between Father and Son, but as soon as the Son was dead, he was resurrected and given his Glorified Body, and then he went
down to hell and released all the prisoners there and
took them with Him to Heaven. After He did that, He came back to spend the time with the Desciples.
He was in his GLORIFIED body then and He had done
exactly what He was SENT TO DO.

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