Mark 15:37

‘And Jesus, having uttered a loud cry, breathed his last.'

The loud cry was ‘it is finished', followed by the quieter, “Father, into your hands I commend my Spirit.” (John 19:30; Luke 23:46). The loud cry was remembered by all, contributing as it did to the eeriness of the occasion. It is possible that ‘it is finished' represented the final words of Psalms 22 ‘He has done it'. Certainly it was a cry of triumph that God's purposes had been accomplished.

‘Breathed His last.' From beginning to end He was in control, even to the timing of His death. A work had had to be done, a sacrifice offered, a battle fought, a price paid, but once it was done He did not linger. He committed His life into the hands of His Father.