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33 About noon, darkness fell across the entire land,[a] lasting until three o’clock that afternoon.

34 Then Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”[b] (“My God, my God, why have you deserted me?”)

35 Some of the people standing there thought he was calling for the prophet Elijah.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 15:33 across the entire land, or “over the entire world.”
  2. Mark 15:34 Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani. He spoke here in Aramaic. The onlookers, who spoke Greek and Latin, misunderstood his first two words (“Eli, Eli”) and thought he was calling for the prophet Elijah.

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