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What were Jesus’ last words on the Cross?

1 “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” – Matthew 27:46

atthew 27:46 tells us that about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, which means, Here, Jesus was expressing His feelings of abandonment as God placed the sins of the world on Him—and because of that, from Jesus. As Jesus was feeling that weight of sin, He was experiencing a separation from God for the only time in all of eternity. This was also a fulfilment of the prophetic statement in Psalm 22:1.

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