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noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three
hours. At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, "Eli, Eli,
lema sabachthani!" which means, "My God, my God, why did you
abandon me?"
Some of the people there heard him and said, "Listen, he is
calling for Elijah!" One of them ran up with a sponge, soaked it in
cheap wine, and put it on the end of a stick. Then he held it up to Jesus'
lips and said, "Wait! Let us see if Elijah is coming to bring him
down from the cross!"
With a loud cry Jesus died.
The curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
The army officer who was standing there in front of the cross saw how
Jesus had died. "This man was really the Son of God!" he said.
Some women were there, looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary
Magdalene, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joseph, and Salome.
They had followed Jesus while he was in Galilee and had helped him. Many
other women who had come to Jerusalem with him were there also.
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It was about twelve o'clock when
the sun stopped shining and darkness covered the whole country until three
o'clock; and the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two. Jesus
cried out in a loud voice, "Father! Into your hands I place my
spirit!" He said this and died.
The army officer saw what had happened, and he praised God, saying,
"Certainly he was a good man!"
When the people who had gathered there to watch the spectacle saw what
happened, they all went back home, beating their breasts in sorrow. All
those who knew Jesus personally, including the women who had followed him
from Galilee, stood at a distance to watch.
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At noon the whole country was
covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours. At about three
o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, "Eli, Eli, lema
sabachthani" which means, "My God, my God, why did you abandon
me?"
Some of the people standing there heard him and said, "He is
calling for Elijah!" One of them ran up at once, took a sponge,
soaked it in cheap wine, put it on the end of a stick, and tried to make
him drink it.
But the others said, "Wait, let us see if Elijah is coming to save
him!"
Jesus again gave a loud cry and breathed his last.
Then the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two from top to
bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split apart, the graves broke open, and
many of God's people who had died were raised to life. They left the
graves, and after Jesus rose from death, they went into the Holy City,
where many people saw them.
When the army officer and the soldiers with him who were watching Jesus
saw the earthquake and everything else that happened, they were terrified
and said, "He really was the Son of God!"
There were many women there, looking on from a distance, who had
followed Jesus from Galilee and helped him. Among them were Mary
Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the wife of Zebedee.
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