Commenting
on John 19:30 and τετελεσται, Robert Gundry wrote:
By itself the final outcry of Jesus is
ambiguous. But it should be translated “They
are finished!” rather than “It is
finished!” because it echoes the statement in 19:28 that Jesus knew “all were now finished.” Again the
reference is to all his signs, works, and words—done and said to take away the
world’s sins. (Robert H. Gundry, Commentary
on the New Testament: Verse-by-Verse Explanations with a Literal Translation [Peabody,
Mass.: Hendrickson, 2010], 453, italics in original)
For more on
John 19:30, see my lengthy article:
