Matthew 27:46

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Matthew 27 · Words of Christ are set in red.

One song meets this passage

  • “Why have you forsaken me?”

    Chop Suey! · System Of A Down

    resonates with Matthew 27:46

    Christ himself voiced this exact cry of abandonment; the song borrows it to frame its own sense of being forsaken, not to mock it.

Elsewhere in Matthew 27