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45 Now from the sixth hour (noon) there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.).(A) 46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud [agonized] voice, [a]Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”(B) 47 When some of the bystanders there heard it, they began saying, “This man is calling for [b]Elijah.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:46 See note John 19:30.
  2. Matthew 27:47 The Jews believed that the prophet Elijah would return before the Messiah appeared.

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