Psalm 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Psalm 22:14-18
I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
you lay me in the dust of death. they have pierced my hands and my feetDogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing
COMMENTARY:
The Spirit of Christ, which spoke through the prophets, testifies in this Psalm by David.
The crucifixion of Jesus, a descendant of David through his mother’s lineage, is described as his bones are out of joint, his mouth is dry or he is silent like ‘a lamb led to slaughter’.
The Jews never used crucifixion as a method of death, yet here it is described in detail, as it was to be carried out according to God’s will by the Romans in Jerusalem hundreds of years in the future from the time the 22nd Psalm was first written.
The main objection to the translation of this scripture revolves around the word ‘PIERCE’. In the Hebrew Massoretic text, in Psalm 22 the word ‘caari which when translated from the Jewish Bible reads ‘Like a lion’ they are at my hands and my feet’. However in the 3rd century B.C.E. translation into Greek of The Septuagint ( the Hebrew Old Testament,) designated the word ‘carri’ as ‘carru’ which means ‘to pierce.’ This proves that 250 years before Jesus crucifiction, the Rabbis were translating this word as ‘pierced’.
New Testament:
Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”–which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”[
John 19:32-37
The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”[
John 19:23-24
When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
“Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.”
This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said, “They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”So this is what the soldiers did.