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34 And at three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?[a] which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”(A) 35 [b]Some of the bystanders who heard it said, “Look, he is calling Elijah.” 36 One of them ran, soaked a sponge with wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to take him down.”

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Footnotes

  1. 15:34 An Aramaic rendering of Ps 22:2. See also note on Mt 27:46.
  2. 15:35 Elijah: a verbal link with Eloi (Mk 15:34). See note on Mk 9:9–13; cf. Mal 3:23–24. See also note on Mt 27:47.