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Matthew 27:44-46
New Catholic Bible
Matthew 27:44-46
New Catholic Bible
44 The thieves who were crucified with him also taunted him in the same way.
45 Jesus Dies on the Cross.[a] Beginning at midday, there was darkness over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 46 And about three o’clock[b] Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”—that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
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- Matthew 27:45 Everything proclaims that the Son of God, dying on the cross, is triumphant over the forces of the world and of death; the old covenant is finished, and the time is coming when the kingdom will be open to all human beings (see Heb 9:12; 10:20; Ezek 37; Dan 12:2; Rev 21).
- Matthew 27:46 Midday . . . three o’clock: literally, “the sixth hour” . . . “the ninth hour.” Psalm 22, whose first verse is here invoked by Jesus, recapitulates all the sufferings of the just people in the Old Testament. It clearly expresses their extreme anguish but also their certainty of final vindication.
