The Death of Jesus^(A)

³³ At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours. ^34 (B)At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?”

³⁵ Some of the people there heard him and said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah!” ^36 (C)One of them ran up with a sponge, soaked it in cheap wine, and put it on the end of a stick. Then he held it up to Jesus' lips and said, “Wait! Let us see if Elijah is coming to bring him down from the cross!”

³⁷ With a loud cry Jesus died.

^38 (D)The curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. ³⁹ The army officer who was standing there in front of the cross saw how Jesus had died.^[a] “This man was really the Son of God!” he said.

^40 (E)Some women were there, looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joseph, and Salome. ⁴¹ They had followed Jesus while he was in Galilee and had helped him. Many other women who had come to Jerusalem with him were there also.

The Death of Jesus^(A)

^44-45 (B)It was about twelve o'clock when the sun stopped shining and darkness covered the whole country until three o'clock; and the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two. ^46 (C)Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father! In your hands I place my spirit!” He said this and died.

⁴⁷ The army officer saw what had happened, and he praised God, saying, “Certainly he was a good man!”

⁴⁸ When the people who had gathered there to watch the spectacle saw what happened, they all went back home, beating their breasts in sorrow. ^49 (D)All those who knew Jesus personally, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance to watch.

The Death of Jesus^(A)

^28 (B)Jesus knew that by now everything had been completed; and in order to make the scripture come true, he said, “I am thirsty.”

²⁹ A bowl was there, full of cheap wine; so a sponge was soaked in the wine, put on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted up to his lips. ³⁰ Jesus drank the wine and said, “It is finished!”

Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.