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Mark 15:33-35
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Mark 15:33-35
International Standard Version
Jesus Dies on the Cross(A)
33 At noon,[a] darkness came over the whole land[b] until three in the afternoon.[c] 34 At three o’clock,[d] Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, eloi,[e] lema sabachthani?”[f] (which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”)[g]
35 When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, “Listen! He’s calling for Elijah!”[h]
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- Mark 15:33 Lit. At the sixth hour
- Mark 15:33 Or earth
- Mark 15:33 Lit. the ninth hour
- Mark 15:34 Lit. the ninth hour
- Mark 15:34 Eloi, eloi are Gk. transliterations for the Heb. My God, my God in Ps 22:1
- Mark 15:34 lema sabachthani is a Gk. transliteration for the Aram. rendering of the Heb. in Ps 22:1, which means Why have you forsaken me?
- Mark 15:34 Cf. Ps 22:1
- Mark 15:35 Elijah in Heb. sounds like Eloi.
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