MARK 15:37 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.”
With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last — the loud cry before the death communicates strength unusual for a crucifixion victim — most died of exhaustion and suffocation over days. The loud cry and the breathed his last communicate that Jesus dies actively, not passively — he gives up his spirit (John 19:30: he bowed his head and gave up his spirit). The death is voluntary, the timing is chosen.
Church Fathers on Mark 15:37
This most glorious light took away its rays from the world, lest it should see the Lord hanging, and lest the blasphemers should have the benefit of its light.
Luke added to this account the cause of the darkness, that is, the darkening of the sun.
If this had been the time for an eclipse, some one might have said that this which happened was natural, but it was the fourteenth moon, when no eclipse can take place.
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