Gospel Notes
Matthew follows his source Mark very closely here, especially in preserving the drama of Jesus' anguished quotation of Psalm 22 in v. 27:46 as his last word and the climax of the Passion account. Although some interpreters would argue that that Psalm, taken in its entirety, bespeaks faith rather than a feeling of abandonment, the single phrase "cried" from the cross clearly suggests otherwise, and underscores the paradoxical power of th…