It was now midday on the Day of Preparation for the Passover Festival. He brought Creator Sets Free (Jesus) before the people and said, “Here is your chief.”
It was now midday, for the sun had reached the center of the sky. A great shadow of darkness covered the land like a blanket, and the sky remained dark until midafternoon.
At the ninth hour Creator Sets Free (Jesus), speaking in his own language, cried out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”—which means, “O Great Spirit, my Creator, why have you left me alone?”