Before his death, Jesus cries out a line from a song about being forsaken completely.  Jesus is forced to walk from a garden through trials and beatings to crucifixion, and no one cried with him.  Jesus is shamed and mocked by everyone, and no one cried with him.  Jesus is treated as if he were dead, and no one cried with him.  Feeling completely abandoned, Jesus sings in a loud voice a song about being all alone, without a single lamenter to join him, not even God.  Why? Why would God abandon someone instead of acting to save?  This episode explores what Jesus in Mark 15:24 and the composer of Psalm 22 boldly ask!

Every Monday in Lent join me for 700 Seconds in a Psalm as we prepare for Easter by looking at Psalms that Jesus quotes during the week before his death. Surprisingly, Jesus quotes more than 10 Psalms that week! We won't have time to examine every Psalm, but we will examine 6 Psalms Jesus quotes before and during his time on the cross.