The last words of any man are significant, but how much more when those last words are spoken by the God man, the Lord Jesus?

In today's study, we visit the cross and listen to the final words of Christ spoken just before his death.

You will find that they hold tremendous truth and application for all of us who live on this side of the cross.

Open your Bible and let's join Scott Pauli now at Calvary.

Long before the crowd ever chanted,

crucify him, crucify him,

and long before Jesus ever spoke a single word from the cross.

The Bible says in Isaiah 53 in verse 5,

but he was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our iniquities.

The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes, we are healed.

We hear the cry of both suffering and salvation, of death and life. We hear the cry of sorrow and at the same time

the cry of joy. That's the cry you hear from the cross. We return today to John chapter

number 19 where we've looked at the Lord Jesus. Remember Pilots said, behold the man, the perfect man, God's man, all man.

By the time you get to John 19, he's beaten and bruised and bloody and broken.

I find it interesting that John, who primarily in his gospel record, emphasizes the deity of Christ,

reveals to us so much about his humanity.

We see deity here robed in flesh and taking the worst of humanity and all the wrath

of God for us.

And when you come to John 19 to the cross, you're actually viewing the cross from Christ's perspective, not from the ground up,

but from the cross down. Have you ever thought of what it looked like from his perspective?

Listen to the words beginning in John 19, verse 25. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother,

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