At the moment before Jesus' death he asks a troubling question: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46, Mark 15:34). When Jesus makes a peculiar statement like this, he just might be saying much more than we first realize.
Did God forsake Jesus? Or is Jesus calling our attention to Psalm 22? His Jewish contemporaries would likely have had it memorized:
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Great one! It's like when people say "birds of a feather" without finishing it. Nearly everybody knows the whole saying, so there is no need to use all the words.
Yeah - it seemed Jesus taught this way a lot. He gave hints and comments and expected people to connect the dots.
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