Matthew 27:46 (ESV) 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
It's hard to imagine what Jesus must have felt that was beyond all the human suffering born here, but consider that the Son had always been with the Father and now experiences being cutoff from the presence of God. That can only mean that the Holy Spirit, that John witnessed descend on Jesus as He rose from the water of baptism to His ministry of salvation, had departed. This had to happen when He became our sin, for there is no room for sin in God's presence. He did this for us.
Jesus knows what it means to be thrown into outer darkness, the absence of God.
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