Matthew 27:46
About the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice and said, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
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In Context
45Now from the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
47When some of those who were standing there heard it, they said, “He is calling for Elijah.”
Cross References
Psalms 71:11They say, “God has forsaken him; 1 pursue and take him, for there is no one to save him.” 1
Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? 1 Look and see if there is anyone else's sorrow like the sorrow that is being inflicted on me, 1 since Yahweh has tormented me on the day of his fierce anger. 1
Luke 23:46Crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” Having said this, he died.
Hebrews 5:7During the days of his flesh, Christ offered up both prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to God, the one able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his godly life.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:34-50
The Crucifixion. 33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, 34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. 35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. 36 And sitting down they watched him there; 37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS… Read the whole commentary →