30. save yourself by coming down from the cross!”
31. In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes, were mocking him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he is not able to save himself!
32. Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe! Even those who were crucified with him were reviling him.
33. And when the sixth hour came, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
34. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”)
35. And some of the bystanders, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is summoning Elijah!”
36. And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone! Let us see if Elijah is coming to take him down.”
37. But Jesus uttered a loud cry and expired.
38. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
39. And when the centurion who was standing opposite him saw that he expired like this, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”
40. And there were also women observing from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and Joses, and Salome,
41. who used to follow him and serve him when he was in Galilee, and many other women who went up with him to Jerusalem.
42. And when it was already evening, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),