MARK 15:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani? (which means my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?) — the cry of dereliction (Psalm 22:1) is the only word from the cross recorded in Mark. In the original language (Aramaic: Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani), preserved as an eyewitness report. The cry is the opening of Psalm 22, the psalm of the righteous sufferer who feels abandoned by God and is ultimately vindicated. Whether this cry represents actual forsakenness or the experience of it within the Trinitarian relationship has been discussed across the centuries; what is clear is that Jesus' identification with human abandonment and desolation is total.
Church Fathers on Mark 15:34
This most glorious light took away its rays from the world, lest it should see the Lord hanging, and lest the blasphemers should have the benefit of its light.
Luke added to this account the cause of the darkness, that is, the darkening of the sun.
If this had been the time for an eclipse, some one might have said that this which happened was natural, but it was the fourteenth moon, when no eclipse can take place.
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