Luke 23:46

And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said this, he gave up the ghost.

This was the final of the Seven Words from the cross. See under Luke 23:43. The three utterances given by Luke are omitted in the other Gospels, just as Luke omitted the utterances they included. All seven of these utterances of Jesus are authentic, historical words truly spoken by the world's Saviour while upon the cross. Such a conceit as that of Gilmour, who said that "Luke substitutes an apt quotation from Psalms 31:5 for the one (by Mark) from Psalms 22:1,"[26] is a travesty on Biblical exegesis. Luke gave a saying that Mark did not record; and Mark gave one that Luke did not record, both being absolutely genuine.

He gave up the ghost ... The loud voice just mentioned was significant. "The loud voice shows that Jesus did not die of exhaustion."[27] If death had come from exhaustion, his vocal chords would not have functioned at all. Jesus' death was conscious and voluntary, fulfilling his prophecy recorded in John 10:17,18.

[26] S. MacLean Gilmour, op. cit., p. 412.

[27] Anthony Lee Ash, op. cit., p. 144.