A viewer asks: “Dear Creator, can you amplify and speak of what Jesus meant when he said, “Τετέλεσται,” meaning “it is finished” or “it is accomplished,” at the end of his life, and its significance to us as mentioned in John 19:30?” What can Creator tell us?

This simple statement of seeming resignation is at once simple and profound. It was a coming together within his own mind and heart in recognition of his accomplishments, that he was setting something in motion that would stand for all of time, for this he had been told could happen, and this gave him the inner strength to keep going even when he could see the signs he was doomed and would meet an untimely and likely grisly death at the hands of the powers that be. It was his strong spiritual alignment and inner resolve, and commitment to us, that enabled him to keep going even though he was, in effect, marching to the gallows. His times of crisis recounted in the Scriptures were about this very struggle as he at times doubted his resolve to face the music even if it meant his own painful destruction. The fact he did so and fulfilled his mission to stand strong in the face of the doubters, the skeptics, and the evildoers, in a culture that was heavily subjugated in ways to crush real freedom, was owing to his spiritual strength and commitment to that mission. So he was simply reckoning with his own imminent demise and concluding that he had done his best, and we concur, there was little further he could have done that would have made as great a difference as his ultimate sacrifice in becoming the icon for the workings of evil trying to crush love in the hearts of human beings.