Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
KJV
περὶ δὲ τὴν ἐνάτην ὥραν ἀνεβόησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς φωνῇ μεγάλῃ λέγων· ἡλεὶ ἡλεὶ λεμὰ σαβαχθανεί; τοῦτ’ ἔστιν· θεέ μου θεέ μου, ἱνατί με ἐγκατέλιπες;
Greek NT
Et circa horam nonam clamavit Jesus voce magna, dicens : Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani ? hoc est : Deus meus, Deus meus, ut quid dereliquisti me ?
Vulgate
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
ASV
And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λαμά
lama
aramaic_word · 2×
μέγας
megas
adjective · 244×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
σαβαχθάνι
sabachthani
aramaic_word · 2×
φωνή
phone
noun · 139×
ἀναβοάω
anaboao
verb · 1×
ἐγκαταλείπω
egkataleipo
verb · 10×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐλοΐ
eloi
aramaic_word · 4×
ἔννατος
ennatos
adjective · 10×
ἱνατί
inati
adverb · 6×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὥρα
ora
noun · 106×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Ps 22:1 · exact_quote"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?"Jesus quotes Psalm 22: my God, why have you forsaken me
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: ἀνεβόησεν | NIV/RP: ἀνεβόησεν | WH/Treg: ἐβόησεν
- ἀνεβόησεν — SBLGNT
- ἀνεβόησεν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ἐβόησεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: Ἠλὶ ἠλὶ | Treg/NA/RP: Ἠλὶ ἠλὶ | WH/NIV: Ἐλωῒ ἐλωῒ
- Ἠλὶ ἠλὶ — SBLGNT
- Ἠλὶ ἠλὶ — Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27, Robinson-Pierpont
- Ἐλωῒ ἐλωῒ — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their own pious opinions. 1. Such, then, is their system, which neither the prophets announced, nor the Lord taught, nor the apostles delivered, but of which they boast that beyond all others they have a perfect knowledge. They gather their views from other sources than the Scriptures; and, to use a common proverb, they str…
Source. Translated by George Prevost and revised by M.B. Riddle. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 10. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/200188.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. My email a…
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? This Psalm is preeminently the Psalm of the Cross. Christ himself uttered these words upon the cross. The details of piercing the hands and feet, casting lots for the garments, the mockery of the bystanders — all were literally fulfilled in the passion of Christ. Yet the Psalm ends in triumph, with the declaration that all the ends of …
Q. Why does the creed add: He descended to hell? A. To assure me in times of personal crisis and temptation that Christ my Lord, by suffering unspeakable anguish, pain, and terror of soul, especially on the cross but also earlier, has delivered me from the anguish and torment of hell.
This death is of such great value and worth for the reason that the person who submitted to it is — as was necessary to be our Savior — not only a true and perfectly holy human being, but also the only begotten Son of God, of the same eternal and infinite essence with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Another reason is that this death was accompanied by the experience of God's wr…
We believe that Jesus Christ is a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek—made such by an oath—and that he presented himself in our name before his Father, to appease his Father's wrath with full satisfaction by offering himself on the tree of the cross and pouring out his precious blood for the cleansing of our sins, as the prophets had predicted. For it is w…
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith · 2 passages
Prayer is an uprising of the mind to God or a petitioning of God for what is fitting. How then did it happen that our Lord offered up prayer in the case of Lazarus, and at the hour of His passion? For His holy mind was in no need either of any uprising towards God, since it had been once and for all united in subsistence with the God Word, or of any petitioning of God. For Chri…
The things said concerning Christ fall into four generic modes. For some fit Him even before the incarnation, others in the union, others after the union, and others after the resurrection. Also of those that refer to the period before the incarnation there are six modes: for some of them declare the union of nature and the identity in essence with the Father, as this, I and My…
Tertullian insists against Praxeas that the Father did not suffer on the cross. It was the Son who suffered in His human nature, crying "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" The Father is impassible; the Son suffered according to His humanity while remaining divine in His other nature.
Leo teaches that each nature performs what is proper to it in communion with the other. The divine nature performs miracles; the human nature endures suffering. The same Christ who walks on water also weeps at Lazarus's tomb, and the one who weeps is the same one who raises Lazarus with a command. The natures act distinctly but never separately.
'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?' See Ps. xxii. 1 and Matt. xxvii. 46 and Mark xv. 34. These are the words of Christ upon the Cross. The Psalm is spoken in the person of Christ crucified. Not that God the Father forsook the Son; but the human nature, which He took upon Himself, cried out in its weakness. For He truly suffered, and His suffering was real, not feigned.…
Cross-references
- Dan 6:22 — My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
- Exod 12:6 — And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
- Heb 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
- Heb 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
- Isa 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall
- John 19:28 — After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
- Lam 1:12 — Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- Lam 3:8 — Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
- Luke 23:46 — And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
- Luke 23:46 — And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
- Mark 15:34 — 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?
- Mark 15:34 — 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?
- Ps 22:1 — My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
- Ps 22:1 — My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
- Ps 42:6 — O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
- Ps 69:17 — And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
- Ps 71:11 — Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
- Ps 71:11 — Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.