Mark 15:34 Jesus cried out with a loud voice – did you hear all of what he said?

Jesus is quoting Psalms 22:1 when he cried out with a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

If we look at the entire Psalm we will see that there is a lot more to hear.

Psalms 22:7 All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads. This verse matches Mark 15:29 And those who passed by hurled insults at him, wagging their heads.

Psalms 22:8 "He committed his cause to the LORD; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him! This verse matches Matthew 27:43 He trusts in God? Let him deliver now, if he desires him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God!’“

Psalms 22:16 “Yea, dogs are round about me; a company of evildoers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet.” This verse matches the crucifixion (Mark 15:22-33).

Psalms 22:18 “They divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots.” This verse matches Mark 15:24 “And they crucified him, and ‘divided his garments, casting lots for them’ to determine what each man should take.”

But don’t stop there we’re starting to get to the best part.

Psalms 22:22 “I will tell of thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee” This verse matches John 20:19 “On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were (for fear of the Jews), Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 And saying this, he showed the hands and the side to them. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 So [Jesus] said to them again, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

Psalms 22:23 “You who fear the LORD, praise him! all you sons of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel! 24 For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.” This verse corresponds to the Resurrection ~ Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead.

Psalms 22:26 “The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live for ever! 27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him. 28 For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations. 29 Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive. 30 Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation, 31 and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it.”

Psalms 22:26-31 corresponds to the time period from the Resurrection to forever. Always remember that on the cross when Jesus cried, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me” he wasn’t just referring to the Crucifixion but he was also referring to the Resurrection, deliverance and forever.

J. Clontz – Editor of the Comprehensive New Testament

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” – which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

15:34 Alx[with a loud voice], Byz[adds saying (DRA, KJV, MRD, NKJ)]; Alx/Byz[Eloi, Eloi Aramaic], Minor[Eli, Eli Hebrew (~MRD, TLB)]; Alx[lema Aramaic], Byz[lima], Minor[lama Hebrew (ASV, DRA, KJV, NAS, NAU, NIV, NJB, NKJ, RSV, TLB)]; Alx/Byz[sabachthani Aramaic], Minor[zaphthani from Hebrew azavtani]; Alx/Byz[My God, my God], Minor[My God]; Alx/Byz[why have you forsaken me], Minor[why have you made me a reproach]; Psalms 22:1 reads in Hebrew Eli, Eli, lama azavtani.

Acts 17:27-31 Do you know God?

How do you tell people about God who don’t know God or the Bible? The Athenians didn’t know God or the Bible. Paul referred to something they did know – Greek poetry. In Acts 17:28 below, Paul quoted from two Greek poets to appeal to what the Athenians knew then he talked to them about what they didn’t know. It’s always a good idea to discuss things in terms that people understand.

J. Clontz – Editor of the Comprehensive New Testament

Acts 17:27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

28        ‘For in him we live and move and have our being,’

as even some of your own poets have said,

            ‘We are his offspring.’

29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed. And of this he has given proof to all men by raising him from the dead.”

17:27 Alx[seek God], Byz[seek the Lord (KJV, NKJ)], Alt[seek the Deity (NJB)]; Alx/Byz[if perhaps they might grope for him and find him], Alt/Peshitta[and, by means of his creations, might find him (MRD)]; Alx/Byz[though he is not far], Minor[and yet he is not far (ESV, ~NJB, RSV, TEV)], Alt[because he is not far (MRD)].

17:28 Alx/Byz[some of your own poets], Alt/Peshitta/Armenian/Ethiopic[one of your own sages or one of your own wise men (MRD)], Minor[some of our own poets], Alt[without textual foundation some of your own writers (~NJB)], other without textual foundation one of your own poets (~TLB)]; Classical[Epimenides, De Oraculis “They fashioned you a tomb, O holy and high one. The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons! But you are not dead. You live and abide forever. For in you we live and move and have our being”; Aratus, Phaenomena 5 “Let us begin with [god].  Never, O men, let us leave him unmentioned.  All the ways are full of [god], and all the market-places of human beings.  The sea is full of him; so are the harbors.  In every way we have all to do with [god], for we are truly his offspring”]; compare Titus 1:12.

17:30 Alx/Byz[ignorance], Minor[this ignorance (DRA, ~JNT, KJV, MRD, ~NET, ~NIV, NKJ, ~NLT, ~TLB)]; Alx/Byz[commands], Minor[announces to (DRA, NAS, NAU, ~NJB)].

17:31 Alx/Byz[by a man], Minor[adds Jesus].

17:27 Deuteronomy 4:29; Psalms 145:18; Isaiah 55:6; Jeremiah 23:23; OT-Apocrypha[Wisdom of Solomon 13:6]

17:28 Pseudepigrapha[Aristobulus Frag 4:6]; Greek[Epimenides, De Oraculis; Aratus, Phaenomena 5 Line 5; Cleanthes]; Origen[Against Celsus Book IV.5; De Principiis Book II.1.3]; Socrates Scholasticus Book 3.16

17:29 Genesis 1:27; Deuteronomy 4:28; Isaiah 40:18-20, 44:9-20; OT-Apocrypha[Wisdom of Solomon 13:10]; Pseudepigrapha[Joseph and Aseneth 2:3]

17:30 OT-Apocrypha[Sirach 28:7]; Pseudepigrapha[Joseph and Aseneth 6:7]; Clement of Alexandria[Stromata Book VI.6]; NT-Apocrypha[Kerygma Petri 3c]

17:31 Psalms 9:9, 96:13, 98:9; NT-Apocrypha[Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Paul 1.4]

Acts 13:23-39 – The Shortest Gospel?

The passage below is considered by some scholars to be a gospel account. It is potentially the oldest shortest complete gospel account in the New Testament. The last verse of the section gives all Christians hope – “through Him everyone who believes is justified.”

J. Clontz – Editor of the Comprehensive New Testament

Acts 13:23 From this man’s [David’s] descendants God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised. 24 Before his coming John had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 And as John was completing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

            26 “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us the message of this salvation was sent forth. 27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him. 28 Though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29 When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead. 31 And for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are [now] his witnesses to the people. 32 And we preach to you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 33 he has fulfilled for us, [their] children, by raising up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm:

            ‘You are my Son.

                        Today I have begotten you.’

34 As for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to decay, he spoke in this way:

            ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David,’

35 because he also says in another Psalm,

            ‘You will not let your Holy One see decay.’

36 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers and saw decay. 37 But he whom God raised did not see decay. 38 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. [And] from everything in Moses’ law which could not make you just – 39 through him everyone who believes is justified.

13:22 Alx/Byz[a man], Minor[omits]; Psalms 89:20, 1 Samuel 13:14.

13:23 Alx/Byz[brought to Israel], Minor[raised unto Israel (DRA, KJV, MRD, NJB, NKJ, ~NLT, ~TEV, ~TLB)]; Alx[a Savior, Jesus], Byz[salvation].

13:24 Alx[to all the people of Israel], Byz[to Israel].

13:25 Alx[What do you suppose that I am?  I am not he or I am not what you suppose I am], Byz[Who do you suppose that I am?  I am not he or I am not who you suppose that I am (DRA, HCS, JNT, KJV, MRD, NIV, ~NJB, NKJ, ~NLT, REB, TEV, ~TLB)].

13:26 Alx[to us], Byz[to you (DRA, KJV, MRD, NJB, NKJ)]; Alx[sent forth], Byz[sent (DRA, ESV, HCS, JNT, KJV, MRD, NAB, NAU, NET, NIV, ~NJB, NKJ, NLT, NRS, REB, RSV, TEV, ~TLB)].

13:30 Alx/Byz[from the dead], Alt/Vulgate[adds the third day (DRA)].

13:31 Alx[who are now his witnesses], Byz[omits now (KJV, NKJ, ~TLB)].

13:32 Alx/Byz[And we preach], Minor[And now we preach (NLT, TLB)]; Alx/Byz[the fathers], Minor[our fathers (DRA, HCS, MRD, NAB, NET, NIV, NJB, NLT, NRS, TEV, TLB)].

13:33 Alx/Byz[33 he has fulfilled…raising up Jesus], Minor[he has fulfilled…raising up Jesus 33 (~TEV, ~TLB)]; Alx/Byz[for us, their children], Minor[for our children (ASV, DRA, NAS, NAU) others for us the children (JNT)], Alt[for their children (NJB)], Alt[for the children (REB)], Alt[paraphrase in our own time (~TLB)]; Alx/Byz[Jesus], Minor[the Lord Jesus Christ others our Lord Jesus Christ]; Alx/Byz[second Psalm], Minor[first Psalm others the Psalms (NJB)]; Psalms 2:7; Minor continues the verse by quoting Psalms 2:8.

13:34 ~Isaiah 55:3 LXX.

13:35 Alx[because he also says], Byz[Therefore he also says (DRA, ESV, HCS, ~JNT, KJV, ~MRD, ~NAB, NAS, NAU, NET, ~NIV, ~NJB, NKJ, ~NLT, NRS, ~REB, RSV, ~TEV, ~TLB)]; Psalms 16:10 LXX.

13:38 Alx/Byz[through this man], Minor[for this reason others through him (DRA, NAB, NAS, NAU, ~NIV, NJB, REB, ~TEV, ~TLB)]; Alx/Byz[And from everything…], Minor[And repentance from everything… others omit And (ASV, ESV, HCS, JNT, KJV, MRD, NAS, NAU, NET, NIV, NJB, NKJ, NLT, NRS, REB, RSV, TEV, TLB) others 39 and from everything… (ASV, ESV 2007 edition, HCS, JNT, KJV, MRD, NAS, NAU, NET, NIV, NKJ, NLT, NRS, REB, RSV, ~TEV, TLB)]; Alx[Moses’ law], Byz[the law of Moses (ASV, DRA, ESV, HCS, JNT, KJV, MRD, NAB, NAS, NAU, NET, NIV, NJB, NKJ, NLT, NRS, REB, RSV, TEV, ~TLB)].

13:39 Alx/Byz[through him Greek through this], Minor[adds therefore]; Alx/Byz[is freed], Minor[adds before God (NLT)].

13:22 1Samuel 13:14, 15:23, 16:1, 12-13; Psalms 89:20-21; Isaiah 44:28; Apostolic[1Clement 18:1]; Constitutions of the Holy Apostles[Book VI.2]

13:23 2Samuel 7:12; Isaiah 11:1; Pseudepigrapha[Testament of Solomon 17:4]

13:24 Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3

13:25 Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7; Luke 3:16; John 1:20, 27; Pseudepigrapha[Joseph and Aseneth 12:5]

13:26 Psalms 107:20, 147:18; Nag Hammadi[Teachings of Silvanus 108-109, 114]

13:27 Acts 3:18-26n; 2Corinthians 3:12-18n; Pseudepigrapha[Joseph and Aseneth 6:7]

13:28 Matthew 27:22-23; Mark 15:13-14; Luke 23:21-23; John 19:15; Pseudepigrapha[Odes of Solomon 31.8]

13:29 Matthew 27:57-61; Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:38-42

13:31 Acts 1:3; Tacitus[The Histories 4.81]

13:33 Psalms 2:7

13:34 Isaiah 55:3

13:35 Psalms 16:10

13:36 Judges 2:10; 1Kings 2:10

13:38 Matthew 9:6n; Acts 26:18n

Mark 02:01-12 - The Words Everyone Will Want to Hear

One day everyone will want to hear – “Your sins are forgiven…RISE!”

In the passage below...

The four men bringing the paralytic to Jesus are similar to the four gospels bringing people to the words of Jesus.

The opening in the roof is similar to a tomb being opened.

The paralytic is similar to those who have “fallen asleep.”

The paralytic coming into Jesus’ presence is similar to the Day of Judgment.

The paralytic’s sins being forgiven are similar to the Last Judgment.

The paralytic rising and walking is similar to the Resurrection.

Hopefully, One Day we will hear Jesus speak the same words to us that he once spoke to the paralytic - “Your sins are forgiven…RISE!”

J. Clontz – Editor of the Comprehensive New Testament

Mark 02:01-12

1 And when he entered Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was home. 2 And many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And he preached the word to them. 3 Then they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. 4 And when they could not bring the man to him because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above him. And when they had broken through, they let down the pallet where the paralytic was lying. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” 6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, reasoning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8 And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, he said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, and take up your pallet and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth” – he said to the paralytic, 11 “I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home.” 12 And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

2:1 Alx[And when he entered…it was heard], Byz[And he entered…and it was heard (DRA, KJV, MRD, NKJ, REB, TEV, TLB)]; Alx[Capernaum Greek Capharnaum], Byz[Capernaum].

2:2 Alx[And many gathered], Byz[And immediately many gathered (KJV, NKJ, ~TLB)].

2:3 Alx[they came, bringing to him], Byz[they came to him, bringing (DRA, HCS, JNT, KJV, MRD, NKJ, ~NLT, ~REB, ~TLB)].

2:4 Alx[bring the man to him Greek bring to him], Byz[come near him (ASV, ESV, JNT, KJV, MRD, NAB, NAS, NAU, ~NET, NKJ, ~REB, RSV, TLB)]; Alx[the pallet where], Byz[the pallet on which (ESV, HCS, JNT, MRD, NAB, NAS, NAU, NET, NIV, NJB, NKJ, NLT, NRS, REB, RSV, TEV, TLB)].

2:5 Alx[your sins are forgiven], Byz[your sins have been forgiven you (~DRA, ~KJV, ~MRD, ~NKJ)].

2:7 Alx[Why does this man speak like this?  He is blaspheming!], Byz[Why does this man speak blasphemies like this? (KJV, NKJ)].

2:8 Alx/Byz[they reasoned thus], Minor[omits thus (JNT, ~NAB, NIV, NJB, NLT, NRS, ~REB, ~TEV, ~TLB)]; Alx[he said to them], Byz[he says to them (ASV, DRA)], Minor[he said (NAB)].

2:9 Alx[Your sins are forgiven], Byz[Your sins have been forgiven], Minor[Sins have been forgiven you (~DRA, ~KJV, ~MRD, ~NKJ, ~TLB)]; Alx/Byz[Rise, and take], Minor[Rise, take (DRA, ESV, HCS, JNT, MRD, NAB, NET, NIV, NJB, NKJ, NLT, REB, RSV, TEV, ~TLB)]; Alx/Byz[walk], Minor[go (TLB)].

2:10 Alx[to forgive sins on earth], Byz[on earth to forgive sins (ASV, DRA, ESV, HCS, JNT, KJV, MRD, NAS, NAU, NET, NIV, NKJ, NLT, NRS, REB, RSV, TEV, TLB)]; Alx/Byz[he said to the paralytic 11], Minor[11 he said to the paralytic (NAB, NJB, ~TLB)].

2:11 Alx[rise, take], Byz[rise, and take (KJV, ~TLB)].

2:12 Alx[And he rose, and immediately took], Byz[And he immediately rose, and took (DRA, HCS, KJV, MRD, NET, NKJ, NLT, TLB)]; Alx[in front of them all], Byz[in the sight of them all (DRA, NAB, NAS, NAU, NIV, NLT, REB, ~TEV, TLB)]; Alx/Byz[glorified God, saying], Minor[omits saying (TLB)].

02:01-12 Matthew 9:1-8; Luke 5:17-26; NT-Apocrypha[Acts of Peter p.130]

02:03 NT-Apocrypha[Epistula Apostolorum 5]

02:07 Psalms 103:3, 130:4; Isaiah 43:25; Tertullian[On Modesty 21]

02:08 Pseudepigrapha[Joseph and Aseneth 23:8, 26:6]; Tertullian[On Baptism 10]

02:09-11 Tertullian[On Modesty 22]

02:10 Psalms 80:17; Matthew 7:28-29n, 9:6n; Acts 26:18n; Methodius[Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna 8]

02:11 Archelaus[Disputation with Manes 40]; Clement of Alexandria[The Instructor Book I.2]

This section also includes topical notes for: Authority to Forgive Sins - Psalms 80:17; Matthew 7:28-29n; Mark 2:10; Luke 7:48-49; Acts 5:31n, 13:38, 26:18n; Colossians 2:13; 1John 1:9, 2:12; Rabbinic[Babylonian Sanhedrin 38b cf. {Exodus 23:21, 24:1}]