World English Bible
Matthew 27:46
“About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Verse in context — Matthew 27
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The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
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About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, "This man is calling Elijah.
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Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
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