Why have you forsaken me?? Why did Jesus ask that

I quote Klaas Schilder:
"We shall be able to 'comprehend' nothing of what we say now. We shall not be able to 'explain' the content of the fourth utterance from the cross, at least, not the essense of it. Of course, that is also true of everything else which we have written here concerning the suffering of Christ. But the impossibility of an expression which explains the essence is more firmly impressed on our hearts at this point than at any other.
A well known saying has it that those who would understand the poet must go to the Poet's country. And now the Poet par excellence is appearing on Golgotha. Be quiet, for Jesus is speaking. The creative spirit. The sensitive soul. And the Author of the Psalms. Now He will sing, will recite His severest hymn - and no longer endure His own verses. You all remember that the fourth utterance, to put it that way, is a 'quotation'. It is literally the overture of Psalm 22. The Son of David is repeating the song of His father David.
Recently a book appeared written by an Israelite about Jesus of Nazareth. The man wrote that very likely the account of the fourth utterance from the cross was not historically reliable. Why not, do you suppose? Well, said he, because a person who is suffering the extreme passion of dying does not 'quote'.
We are already contradicting the general bearing of this objection, of course. Anyone who understands anything of the piety and mysticism nutured by the Scriptures, will know better. Pious people in anxious moments of life almost naturally quote the Scriptures. There are many of those who pray, and who, when they reach the point of strongest feeling in the prayer, immediately start using the phraseology of the Bible. A citation from the Scriptures is more effective at the ministration of the Holy Supper than a 'beautiful' discourse. Death beds succeed in eliciting more and more texts from the the soul in proportion to the extent that the wall-texts in the dying-room become paler and paler to the breaking eye. Whoever lives in the Scriptures will, precisely in moments of great stress as in moments of great joy, speak in quotations. So much in general.
But we must say something also of the Saviour in particular.
To be continued, DV.

 

I have always felt and believed that Jesus couldn't die unless God turned His back on Him, for as long as God was looking over Him, the angels would come if He dashed His foot on a stone.