And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
Parallel translations
- WEB Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
- KJV Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
- BSB When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit.
- NASB And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and gave up His spirit.
- NLT Then Jesus shouted out again, and he released his spirit.
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Quick answer
Jesus cries out loudly once more and yields up His spirit. He dies, surrendering His life by His own will.
Overview
With a final loud cry Jesus gives up His spirit, showing He lays down His life rather than having it merely taken. His death is voluntary and purposeful, the culmination of His mission to ransom sinners. This is the decisive moment of the atonement, the death of the Lamb of God for the sins of the world.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- John 19:30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
- Isa 53:9–12They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
- Ps 22:14–15I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
- Luke 23:46Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
- Heb 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
- Mark 15:37Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
- John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
- John 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
- Heb 2:14Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
- Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
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