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Yielded up the ghost (ἀφῆκε τὸ πνεῦμα)
Lit., dismissed his spirit. Rev., yielded up his spirit. The fact that the evangelists, in describing our Lord's death, do not use the neuter verb, ἔθανεν, he died, but he breathed out his life (ἐξέπνευσε, Mar 15:37), he gave us his spirit (παρέδωκε τὸ πνεῦμα, Joh 19:30), seems to imply a voluntary yielding up of his life. Compare Joh 10:18. Augustine says, “He gave up his life because he willed it, when he willed it, and as he willed it.”