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Yeshua Lays Down His Life

45 Now from the sixth hour, darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. [a] 46 About the ninth hour Yeshua cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?[b] that is, “My God, My God, why have You abandoned Me?”

47 When some of those standing there heard it, they began saying, “This Man is calling for Elijah.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:46 From noon until 3 p.m.; cf. Job 5:14; Ps. 105:28.
  2. Matthew 27:46 Ps. 22:2(1); cf. Deut. 32:20.