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“Why Have You Forsaken Me?”

On the cross

Mark 15:34

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Mark 15:34

34And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?'—which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'

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What happened

At about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, using the words of Psalm 22 to ask his God why he had forsaken him.

Where this fits

One of 21 passages in Jesus' Prayers of Jesus, in the group “On the cross.”

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