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Why have You forsaken Me
Psalm 22 opens with a cry of abandonment and ends in praise. Jesus prayed its first line from the cross, and the Gospels record several of its details in the crucifixion.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
Direct quotation
New TestamentMatthew 27:46Open this recordRead the earlier witness
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? Read the later witness
About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). Why FaithGraph draws this line
Matthew 27:46 quotes Psalms 22:1.
The cry from the cross, in Aramaic and translated, is the opening line of Psalm 22.
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The explanation above is FaithGraph editorial content, not Scripture.