33: And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

34: And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?(This is no doubt the hardest part of His sufferings. Having been with the Father from all eternity without the slightest separation, it was hard to be forsaken even for a moment. This was necessary because God could not countenance sin even if it were borne by His only begotten Son. This emphasizes the awfulness of sin and that it must be put away if fellowship with God is desired(1 Jn.1:7; Heb.12:14; Tit. 2:11-14))


35: And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias(Elijah(1 Ki.17; Mal. 4:5-6).

36: And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

37: And Jesus cried with a loud voice(His death was not brought about by physical weakness), and gave up the ghost(He didn't die until The Holy Spirit told Him to die(Heb.9:14)).

38: And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom(This signified that the price had been paid, with all sin atoned and the way into the Holy of Holies was made possible to all men through the blood of Christ (Heb.9:8; 10:19-20). Now all men can find God and have access to Him without priests(Acts 2:21; 1 Jn.1:9; Rom. 10:9-10; Eph.2:17-18).

39: And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.

Mark 15:33-39

THANK YOU JESUS

Matthew 27:

45: Now from the sixth hour(12 Noon) there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.(3 p.m.-- for these three hours, God would literally hide His Face from His Son; during this time, Jesus did bear the sin penalty of mankind (II Cor.5:21) “this darkness” was not the result of an eclipse, for then the moon was full; it was brought on by God in that He could not look upon His Son, as He did bear the sin penalty of the world).

46: And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,(showing He didn't die from weakness, but rather laid down His Own Life (Jn.10:17-18)) saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?(The question as to why God had forsaken Him was not asked in a sense of not knowing, but in a sense of acknowledging the act. God didn't deliver Him, even as He always had, because, to have done such, would have forfeited Redemption for mankind. Incidentally, Jesus spoke in Aramaic, which was commonly used by the Lord.)

47: Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.(this would have referred to Jews, because Romans would have known nothing about Elijah).

48: And straightway(immediately) one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.(the evidence is, it touched His lips, and He died; it had nothing to do with His Life or death).

49: The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.(said in mockery!)
50: Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.(He freely laid down His Life, meaning that He didn't die from His wounds; as well, He didn't die until the Holy Spirit told him to do so(Hev.9:14))

51: And, behold, the veil of the temple(that which hid the Holy of Holies; Josephus said it was sixty feet high from the ceiling to the floor, four inches thick, and was so strong, that four yoke of oxen could not pull it apart) was rent in twain from the top to the bottom(meaning that God alone could have done such a thing; it also signified, that the price was paid completely on the Cross; signified by the rent veil; regrettably, some say, the Cross—didn't finish the task with other things required; this Verse says differently); and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;(represented an earthquake, but had nothing to do with the renting of the veil, which took place immediately before this phenomenon)

52: And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,(does not teach “soul sleep” as some claim, but rather that the bodies of the Sainted dead do sleep; not the soul and the spirit, which then went to Paradise, but since the Cross, at death, now go to be with Christ(Phil.1:23))

53: And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.(while all were delivered out of Paradise, and taken to Heaven, some, even many, stopped over in Jerusalem for a short period of time, “and appeared unto many”; how many there were, we aren't told, and to whom they appeared, we aren't told; Matthew alone gives this account).

54: Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.(he was the first Gentile to render this testimony of Faith; tradition affirms that the Centurion's name was Longinus, and that he became a devoted follower of Christ, preached the Faith, and died a martyr's death)

27:51 Immediately upon his death, while the sun was still darkened, the veil of the temple, which separated the holy of holies from the court of the priests, though made of the richest and strongest tapestry, was rent in two from the top to the bottom: so that while the priest was ministering at the golden altar (it being the time of the sacrifice) the sacred oracle, by an invisible power was laid open to full view:

God thereby signifying the speedy removal of the veil of the Jewish ceremonies the casting down the partition wall, so that the Jews and Gentiles were now admitted to equal privileges, and the opening a way through the veil of his flesh for all believers into the most holy place. And the earth was shaken - There was a general earthquake through the whole globe, though chiefly near Jerusalem: God testifying thereby his wrath against the Jewish nation, for the horrid impiety they were committing.


The veil which was rent was the veil which divided the holy place into which the priests entered from the holy of holies into which only the high priest might enter on the day of atonement, Note: "Ex 26:31" Lev 16:1-30 The rending of that veil, which was a type of the human body of Christ Heb 10:20 signified that a "new and living way" was opened for all believers into the very presence of God with no other sacrifice or priesthood save Christ's. (cf) Heb 9:1-8 10:19-22.
Mt 27:51-66. Signs and Circumstances Following the Death of the Lord Jesus-He Is Taken Down from the Cross, and Buried-The Sepulchre Is Guarded. ( = Mr 15:38-47; Lu 23:47-56; Joh 19:31-42).


The Veil Rent (Mt 27:51).
51. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom-This was the thick and gorgeously wrought veil which was hung between the "holy place" and the "holiest of all," shutting out all access to the presence of God as manifested "from above the mercy seat and from between the cherubim"-"the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest" (Heb 9:8). Into this holiest of all none might enter, not even the high priest, save once a year, on the great day of atonement, and then only with the blood of atonement in his hands, which he sprinkled "upon and before the mercy seat seven times" (Le 16:14)-to signify that access for sinners to a holy God is only through atoning blood.

But as they had only the blood of bulls and of goats, which could not take away sins (Heb 10:4), during all the long ages that preceded the death of Christ the thick veil remained; the blood of bulls and of goats continued to be shed and sprinkled; and once a year access to God through an atoning sacrifice was vouchsafed-in a picture, or rather, was dramatically represented, in those symbolical actions-nothing more.

But now, the one atoning Sacrifice being provided in the precious blood of Christ, access to this holy God could no longer be denied; and so the moment the Victim expired on the altar, that thick veil which for so many ages had been the dread symbol of separation between God and guilty men was, without a hand touching it, mysteriously "rent in twain from top to bottom"-"the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was NOW made manifest!"

How emphatic the statement, from top to bottom; as if to say, Come boldly now to the Throne of Grace; the veil is clean gone; the mercy seat stands open to the gaze of sinners, and the way to it is sprinkled with the blood of Him-"who through the eternal Spirit hath offered Himself without spot to God!" Before, it was death to go in, now it is death to stay out. See more on this glorious subject on [1376]Heb 10. 19-22.

THANK YOU JESUS,, MY LORD AND SAVIOUR

33: And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

34: And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?(This is no doubt the hardest part of His sufferings. Having been with the Father from all eternity without the slightest separation, it was hard to be forsaken even for a moment. This was necessary because God could not countenance sin even if it were borne by His only begotten Son. This emphasizes the awfulness of sin and that it must be put away if fellowship with God is desired(1 Jn.1:7; Heb.12:14; Tit. 2:11-14))


35: And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias(Elijah(1 Ki.17; Mal. 4:5-6).

36: And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

37: And Jesus cried with a loud voice(His death was not brought about by physical weakness), and gave up the ghost(He didn't die until The Holy Spirit told Him to die(Heb.9:14)).

38: And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom(This signified that the price had been paid, with all sin atoned and the way into the Holy of Holies was made possible to all men through the blood of Christ (Heb.9:8; 10:19-20). Now all men can find God and have access to Him without priests(Acts 2:21; 1 Jn.1:9; Rom. 10:9-10; Eph.2:17-18).

39: And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.

Mark 15:33-39

THANK YOU JESUS

AMEN!!! Thank you God!!!