Quotation:
"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit."
Long quote:
"And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost."
In the Christian religion, these are the last words spoken by Jesus Christ as he died under crucifixion - a standard form of Roman execution at the time.
Note that the long quote above is from the Authorized King James Version of the Bible (published 1611), which does not use quotation marks for speech.
Bible Luke 23:46
Father (noun): God (in Christianity the father of Jesus)
thy (pronoun) old English: your
commend (verb): entrust (something to someone); give (to someone to take care of)
spirit (noun): the non-physical part of a person; our supernatural part
thus (adverb): in this way
give up the ghost (expression) poetic: die
thy (pronoun) old English: your
commend (verb): entrust (something to someone); give (to someone to take care of)
spirit (noun): the non-physical part of a person; our supernatural part
thus (adverb): in this way
give up the ghost (expression) poetic: die
Contributor: Josef Essberger