Mark 15:33-41(ESV)

And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!” There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

Jesus’ Death in Three Movements

First Movement: the Universality of Sin

Mark 15:33-34

And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Amos 8:9

“And on that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

1 John 1:5

“God is light. In Him there is no darkness at all.”

Romans 3:9-10

For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God…no one does good, not even one.”

“It was foul, and I loved it. I loved my own undoing. I loved my error—not that for which I erred but the error itself. A depraved soul, falling away from security in thee to destruction in itself, seeking nothing from the shameful deed but shame itself.” (Augustine)

Mark 15:34

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Isaiah 59:2

…but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death…

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.” (C.S. Lewis)

Second Movement: the Totality of Salvation

Mark 15:35-38

And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

Mark 15:37

And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.

1 Corinthians 15:57

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 10:19-22

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith…

Third Movement: the Majesty of the Savior

Mark 15:39

And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

Mark 1:15

Jesus said, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

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