³³At noon the whole country became dark, and the darkness lasted for three hours. ³⁴At three o’clock Jesus cried in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani.” This means, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”

³⁵When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, “Listen! He is calling Elijah.”

³⁶Someone there ran and got a sponge, filled it with vinegar, tied it to a stick, and gave it to Jesus to drink. He said, “We want to see if Elijah will come to take him down from the cross.”

³⁷Then Jesus cried in a loud voice and died.

³⁸The curtain in the Temple ⁿ was torn into two pieces, from the top to the bottom. ³⁹When the army officer who was standing in front of the cross saw what happened when Jesus died, ⁿ he said, “This man really was the Son of God!”

⁴⁰Some women were standing at a distance from the cross, watching; among them were Mary Magdalene, Salome, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph. (James was her youngest son.) ⁴¹These women had followed Jesus in Galilee and helped him. Many other women were also there who had come with Jesus to Jerusalem.

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Mark 15:34: … My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Footnotes

ncurtain in the Temple A curtain divided the Most Holy Place from the other part of the Temple. That was the special building in Jerusalem where God commanded the Jewish people to worship him.
nwhen Jesus died Some Greek copies read “when Jesus cried out and died.”