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The Fourth Word from the Cross: Martha

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The Fourth Word from the Cross:

The Fourth Word from the Cross: Martha

Martha

Matthew 27:46, John 11:1-44, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 27:35-49, Psalm 22:1,

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Psalm 22:7-8, Psalm 22:16-18, Exodus 10:21-22, Amos 8:9-10

While we do not know for sure, it is interesting to consider what someone like Jesus’ friend, Martha, might have been feeling and thinking about if she was present to hear what Jesus said when He was on the cross.

When Jesus said His fourth word of the cross:

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), imagine how those words might have stirred Martha in her heart, mind, and soul.

Martha had experienced what it feels like to be forsaken.

She felt forsaken by her friend, Jesus, when He was not present at the time her brother, Lazarus, died.

She was disappointed and distraught that Jesus was not there when Lazarus’ sickness led not to another of Jesus’ miraculous recoveries, but rather to his death and a tomb.

imagine how those words might have stirred Martha in her heart, mind, and soul.

Martha had experienced what it feels like to be forsaken.

She felt forsaken by her friend, Jesus, when He was not present at the time her brother, Lazarus, died.

She was disappointed and distraught that Jesus was not there when Lazarus’ sickness led not to another of Jesus’ miraculous recoveries, but rather to his death and a tomb.

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Martha’s feelings ended up shifting shortly after Jesus did arrive, but once a person feels the sting of being forsaken, even if misplaced, one does not forget that sensation.

When Jesus spoke those words dealing with feeling forsaken from the cross, He was on His way at a rapid pace to breathing His final breath before death.

Afterwards, He would be taken down from the cross and laid in a tomb as a dead man just as His friend, Lazarus was a few days earlier.

At that time all Martha and her sister Mary could do was watch, hope, pray and send word to their friend, Jesus, asking Him for help.

Jesus did come to them.

At first, they thought He was too late.

They felt forsaken by their friend.

They felt hurt.

They were at a loss.

But their loss turned around before too long.

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If Martha heard Jesus say what He said on the cross, did this whole scene from race back to her mind?

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race back to her mind?

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“Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death.

It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

Then after this, he said to the disciples, “Let us go to

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Judea again.”

The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day?

If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”

The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.

Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, and for your sake, I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe.

But let us go to him.”

So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

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Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”

Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.

Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

Do you believe this?”

She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”

When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.

Now Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.

And he said, “Where have you laid him?”

They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”

Jesus wept.

So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

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When†Jesus†spoke†those†words†dealing†with†feeling†forsaken†from†the†cross¨†He†was†on†His†way†at†a†rapid†pace

Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb.

It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”

Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”

Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

So they took away the stone.

And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”

When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth.

Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

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While Martha may have felt forsaken at first, there is indeed always hope for a different ending in the story.

She experienced that first hand with Jesus and Lazarus when He called her brother out from death and darkness.

Perhaps what seemed imminent and final at the cross might have a twist in time as well.

Regardless, at the moment Jesus uttered the fourth word, He was feeling forsaken.

While Martha may have felt forsaken at first, there is indeed always hope for a different ending in the story.

She experienced that first hand with Jesus and Lazarus when He called her brother out from death and darkness.

Perhaps what seemed imminent and final at the cross might have a twist in time as well.

Regardless, at the moment Jesus uttered the fourth word, He was feeling forsaken.

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