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Temple Curtain Torn in Two

44 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour, [a] 45 for the sun died out. And the curtain[b] of the Temple was torn in two.

46 And Yeshua, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I entrust My spirit.’”[c] When He had said this, He breathed His last.

47 Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began glorifying God, saying, “Truly this was a righteous Man.”

48 And all the crowds assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had happened, began to turn back, beating their breasts. 49 But all Yeshua’s acquaintances, and the women who were following Him from the Galilee, were standing at a distance, watching these things.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:45 From noon until 3 p.m.
  2. Luke 23:45 Heb. parokhet, veil or inner curtain; cf. Exod. 26:33; 2 Chr. 3:14; Heb. 9:3.
  3. Luke 23:46 Ps. 31:6(5), cf. Ps. 30:5 (LXX).