Mark 15:33–41

The Death of Jesus

³³At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours. ^34*At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?”

³⁵Some of the people there heard him and said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah!” ^36*One of them ran up with a sponge, soaked it in cheap wine, and put it on the end of a stick. Then he held it up to Jesus’ lips and said, “Wait! Let us see if Elijah is coming to bring him down from the cross!”

³⁷With a loud cry Jesus died.

^38*The curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. ³⁹The army officer who was standing there in front of the cross saw how Jesus had died.^y “This man was really the Son of God!” he said.

^40*Some women were there, looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joseph, and Salome. ^41*They had followed Jesus while he was in Galilee and had helped him. Many other women who had come to Jerusalem with him were there also.