Mark 15:37

And Jesus uttered a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

It is heartening to read Cranfield refuting Bultmann's slander to the effect that Jesus never said anything on the cross, only making this loud cry, into which the early church retrospectively read the saying attributed in the Gospels! As Cranfield affirmed, "We are on firm historical ground here."[15]

Bickersteth's interesting words on this cry are:

Usually the voice fails the dying man ... but Christ cried out just before he expired, by that supernatural power which his Godhead supplied to him ... he did not die of necessity, but voluntarily ... Victor Antiochanus said, "By this action the Lord Jesus proved that he had his whole life, and his death, in his own free power."[16]

[15] Ibid.

[16] E. Bickersteth, op. cit., p. 309.