Matthew 27:44-46
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
44 The revolutionaries who were crucified with him also kept abusing him in the same way.
The Death of Jesus. 45 [a](A)From noon onward,(B) darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 46 (C)And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”[b] which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
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- 27:45 Cf. Am 8:9 where on the day of the Lord “the sun will set at midday.”
- 27:46 Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?: Jesus cries out in the words of Ps 22:2a, a psalm of lament that is the Old Testament passage most frequently drawn upon in this narrative. In Mark the verse is cited entirely in Aramaic, which Matthew partially retains but changes the invocation of God to the Hebrew Eli, possibly because that is more easily related to the statement of the following verse about Jesus’ calling for Elijah.
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