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and said, "You who would pull down the Sanctuary and build a new one within three days, save yourself. If you are God's Son, come down from the cross."
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In like manner the High Priests also, together with the Scribes and the Elders, taunted Him.
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"He saved others," they said, "himself he cannot save! He is the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.
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His trust is in God: let God deliver him now, if He will have him; for he said, `I am God's Son.'"
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Insults of the same kind were heaped on Him even by the robbers who were being crucified with Him.
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Now from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon there was darkness over the whole land;
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but about three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to say, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"
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"The man is calling for Elijah," said some of the bystanders.
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One of them ran forthwith, and filling a sponge with sour wine put it on the end of a cane and offered it Him to drink;
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while the rest said, "Let us see whether Elijah is coming to deliver him."
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But Jesus uttered another loud cry and then yielded up His spirit.