John 19:30:
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Jesus said, "It is finished," on the cross! Not Descended into hell and declared it is finished!
John records in this account, the exact words that Jesus spoke on the cross before He breathed His last breath and gave up His spirirt. John did not focus on the manner in which Jesus spoke; John was focusing not on the volume of Jesus in His last words, not on the scream, shout, or in writhing pain when Jesus said, " it is finished." But John emphasized, Jesus in fulfillment, in great relief said, " it is finished,"and bowed his head and breathed His last.
Matthew, however, records the tone and manner in which Jesus spoke His words, but
did not record what the words were. But Matthew seems to emphasize the volume and the scream of His last words when Matthew recods, "And Jesus cried out, again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit." Matthew 27:50.
When Jesus said, "it is finished!"
He reaffirmed the Love God the Father had for Him on the Cross, after Jesus made propitiation in His Blood to God the Father and appeased the wrath of God for the sins of God's people!
Jesus was our living Sacrifice on the Cross!
Jesus suffered the wrath of God on the Cross in His Shed Blood, He was our Living Sacrifice, He did not descend to Hell to suffer, He suffered on the Cross the wrath of God in His Shed Blood, while physically Alive! And when He declared, "It is finished!" He completed and made propritiation appeased the wrath of God in His Blood, sprinkling His Blood on the Altar and profferring in Liabation of His Blood before God the Father in the Holy of Holies not made with Human hands! He vindicated the justice and Holiness of God the Father for the sins of God's people, that they would not suffer wrath!
He declared it is finished on the Cross! And it was truly finished and He will make no more sacrifice in His Blood, for it was finished on the Cross in His living Sacrifice of His Shed Blood! And Said, "It is finished!" And Entered into His Rest, in bringing many sons and daughters to glory!
Hebrews 9: 11-14:
"11But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption."
13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God..."
Hebrews 9: 15:
"15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant..."
Hebrews 9: 22-28:
"...22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
23Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, 26for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him."
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