When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
He said, “IT IS FINISHED!: and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.
John 19:30
19:30. It is finished: His passive (Lat. patior, "suffering") ministry is now completed.
17:4. I have finished (teleiosas) means "I have made perfect or completed." This verb is in
the active voice, indicating Christ had finished His active ministry (cf. 4:34). He now assumes a He prince passive role. In 19:30 ("It is finished")
the passive voice suggests that He has by then finished His passive ministry as well.
The words of Jesus on the cross are significant:
The first words concern the Roman soldiers who were crucifying Him: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). The second statement is made to the penitent thief: "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43). The third statement comes while looking at His grief-stricken mother."Woman, behold thy son!" To John He says, "Behold thy mother!" (vv. 26, 27). The fourth cry is addressed to God at the ninth hour and comes from Psalm 22: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34). The fifth statement is "I thirst" (v. 28), followed by His taking of vinegar from a sponge. The sixth cry is 'It is finished" (v. 30). (See comments on 17:4.) The seventh cry was addressed to His Father: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit"
(Luke 23:46).
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, ( for that sabbath day was a high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. John 19:31
*19:31. The preparation was Friday, the day before the sabbath (cf. vv. 14, 42). (See especially Mark 15:42.) It was a high day because it was the Sabbath during the Passover week. The Jews did not mind putting an innocent man to death, even the Son of God, but they were very careful not to break the Sabbath,
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