And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the 

whole land until the ninth hour And at the ninth hour Jesus cried 

with a loud voice,   “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, 

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the 

bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” And 

someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed 

and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether 

Elijah will come to take him down.”  And Jesus uttered a loud cry 

and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in 

two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood 

facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, 

“Truly this man was the Son of God!”