The 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast

We are to read this as though he is voluntarily giving up his spirit even here in this final moment of his death. This is a euphemism and Jesus died normal, but horrific death and death got him like death gets other people. It just didn't get him for very long and he's going to overcome it as predicted or you could read it as even in this moment, he waited until the moment was right,. He'd finished everything he needed to accomplish. And then he voluntarily releases his spirit, gives himself over to death for this interim because now we've done the part where Jesus dies.