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Luk_23:44-46. See on Mat_27:45; Mat_27:50 f.; Mar_15:33; Mar_15:37 f. According to Luke, the connection of events was as follows: It was already about the sixth hour, when there is darkness over the whole earth till the ninth hour (yet the sun is still visible),—then the sun also vanishes in darkness—the veil is rent
Jesus utters His last cry, and dies.
καί ] as Luk_19:43; Mar_15:25.
τὸ πνεῦμά μου ] my spirit, comprehending the whole spiritual nature, contrasted with the dying body; Act_7:59. Comp. in general, Hahn, Theol. d. N. T. I. p. 410.
Luk_23:46. εἰς χεῖράς σου κ . τ . λ .] from Psa_31:6, which words Jesus makes His own, committing His spirit wholly to the disposal of God; and this perfect surrender to God, whose control extends even to Hades (Luk_16:22; Wis_3:1; Act_2:27), is not out of keeping with Luk_23:43.
This prayer is to be placed after the τετέλεσται of Joh_19:30, and corresponds to the παρέδωκεν τὸ πνεῦμα of John. Probably, however, the idea παρέδωκεν τὸ πνεῦμα was only by the more accurately explaining tradition moulded into the definite words, as Luke has them.