As we celebrate Good Friday and the Resurrection weekend, what better time is there to explain the last words spoken by Jesus? Until we understand Good Friday, we can’t understand Resurrection Sunday.
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For those who may be unfamiliar, traditionally, these seven words are known as words of forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion.
The seven last words of Jesus reveal what was most important to our loving Savior, and several of them helped fulfill the messianic prophecies about that momentous day.
Below are his last words explained.
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What Are The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ?
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1. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” – Luke 23:34
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The soldiers took their hammers and the long metal spikes, and they nailed the Son of God to a beam of wood. They lifted Him up on a wooden pole, and dropped the pole into a hole in the ground. Then Jesus spoke for the first time from the cross: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
2. “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise,” – Luke 23:4
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Two criminals who were crucified with Jesus were His right and one on His left. “One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him, ‘Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us’” (Luke 23:39).
As a man in the last hours of his life, he is completely lost, he is completely helpless, and he is still angry with God. The…
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