{"id":32573,"date":"2021-04-02T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=32573"},"modified":"2021-04-02T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:16:15","slug":"the-7-last-words-of-christ-on-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=32573","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Last Words of Christ on the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2001-7-Last-Words.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most powerful practices we can participate in to prepare our hearts for Good Friday and Easter is to reflect on the 7 Last Words of Christ on the Cross.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve arranged them below chronologically, as Jesus spoke them.<\/p>\n<p>We can allow each word, each sentence, spoken by our Savior to pierce our hearts with awareness of our sin and gratitude for God\u2019s amazing forgiving grace.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The First Words<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen said Jesus, <em>\u2018Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.\u2019<\/em> And they parted his raiment, and cast lots\u201d (Luke 23:34).<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Second Words<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Jesus said unto him, <em>\u2018I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in paradise\u2019\u201d<\/em> (Luke 23:43).<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Third Words<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said to his mother, <em>\u2018Woman, behold thy son!\u2019\u201d<\/em> (John 19:26).<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Fourth Words<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, <em>\u2018Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?\u2019 <\/em>which is, being interpreted, <em>\u2018My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?\u2019\u201d<\/em> (Mark 15:34).<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Fifth Words<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u2018After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, <em>\u2018I<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most powerful practices we can participate in to prepare our hearts for Good Friday and Easter is to reflect on the 7 Last Words of Christ on the Cross.<br \/>\nThe post The 7 Last Words of Christ on the Cross appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-32573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-uncategorized","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2001-7-Last-Words-300x212-2-1.jpg?fit=300%2C212&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32583,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573\/revisions\/32583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}