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46 (A)And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?[a] which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

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  1. 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.