[15:33] At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.
[15:34] At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?”
[15:35] Some of the people there heard him and said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah!”
[15:36] 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!”
[15:37] With a loud cry Jesus died.
[15:38] The curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
[15:39] 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.
[15:40] 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.
[15:41] 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.