Christian Liberals & Progressive People of Faith

He was quoting Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

In order to fulfill it

Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.


Jesus was fully God and fully human, but that doesn't mean his divine nature was locked away and inaccessible to him here on earth.Jesus did not empty himself. He humbled himself there is a big difference. Philippians 2:8
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Versions that say he emptied himself are in error. Wasn't humanity that raised Lararus from the dead.

John 10:18
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.


Jesus chose to endure the suffering as a human and would not lean on his divine nature on the cross.