Jul 15 2008
What Miracle Was Seen in the Death of Jesus Christ?
“Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost” (Matt. 27:50).
“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost” (John 19:30).
These two English expressions, “yielded up” and “gave up” are from the same Greek phrase which could also be translated “to dismiss,” “to command to leave,” “to order a departure.”
What then, was the miracle of His death? Simply this: By an act of sheer will, Jesus ordered His heart to stop beating, His blood to cease circulating, and His lungs to abstain from breathing. We cannot accomplish this apart from the help of a gun, knife, poison, etc. But the Savior commanded His physical life to end as easily as we might order our body to rise from a chair!
Thus, we see the supernatural involved concerning the three most important events in Jesus’ earthly life:
● He was born without the aid of a human father (Luke 1:30-35).
● He died by an act of the will.
● He was raised from the dead with a glorified body (Luke 24:33-40).
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