Mark 15:33–41

The Death of Jesus

³³When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land^d until three in the afternoon. ³⁴At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”^{e* 35}When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah.” ³⁶And someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”^{* 37}Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. ³⁸And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.^{* 39}Now when the centurion who stood facing him saw that in this way he^f breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”^g*

⁴⁰There were also women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,^{* 41}who followed him when he was in Galilee and ministered to him, and there were many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.^*