Godforsaken? -- The Fourth Word from the Cross
Note: This is my contribution to the Troy Community Good Friday Service, which lifts up the traditional "Seven Last Words of Christ." I am one of seven preachers, each taking a word and exploring it in brief.
Mark 15:33-34
We now come to the fourth word from the cross, as recorded in the Gospel of Mark: 3 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”By the time Jesus cried out the fourth word from the cross, darkness had covered the land for three long hours. At three o’clock in the afternoon, shrouded in cold darkness and suffering unimaginable pain, Jesus cried out: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Mark 15:33-34
We now come to the fourth word from the cross, as recorded in the Gospel of Mark: 3 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34 At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”By the time Jesus cried out the fourth word from the cross, darkness had covered the land for three long hours. At three o’clock in the afternoon, shrouded in cold darkness and suffering unimaginable pain, Jesus cried out: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
