Mark 15:34

And at the ninth hour the hour of the offering of the evening sacrifice,

Jesus cried with a loud voice He now gives utterance to the words of the first verse of the xxii nd Psalm, in which, in the bitterness of his soul, David had complained of the desertion of his God, and said,

"Eloï! Eloï! lama sabachthani?"

This is the only one of the "Seven Sayings from the Cross," which has been recorded by St Mark, and he gives the original Aramaic and its explanation. Observe that of these sayings (i) the first three all referred to others, to (a) His murderers, (b) the penitent malefactor, (c) His earthly mother; (ii) the next three referred to His own mysterious and awful conflict, (a) His loneliness, (b) His sense of thirst, (c) His work now all but ended; (iii) with the seventh He commends His soul into His Father's hands.