45 Around noon, the whole country became dark for three hours 46 [ref]and then around 3pm, Yeshua shouted with a loud voice, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”

47 Some of the people standing there heard him and thought that he was calling Eliyyah[fn] 48 [ref]One of them ran and got a sponge and dipped it in wine vinegar, and then wrapped it around a reed and held it up to his mouth to drink from.

49 But the others were saying, “Just leave him and we’ll see whether Eliyyah comes to save him.”

50 Then Yeshua made a loud cry and sent his spirit away.

51 [ref]Then, wow, the curtain inside the temple was torn apart from the top to the bottom, and there was an earthquake and splitting of rocks. 52 Some tombs came open and many bodies of godly people came alive again 53 and leaving the tombs after his resurrection, they went into God’s city where many people saw them.

54 The Roman officer and his soldiers who were guarding Yeshua were very frightened when they felt the earthquake and saw what happened, and said, “This man really was a son of God!”

55 [ref]There were many women watching all this from a distance—they were those who from Galilee who had followed Yeshua and looked after him, 56 including Maria from Magdala, Maria the mother of Yacob and Yosef, and Zebedee’s wife—the mother of Yacob and Yohan.