Luke 23:44-49

Contemporary English Version

The Death of Jesus

(Matthew 27.45-56; Mark 15.33-41; John 19.28-30)

⁴⁴Around noon the sky turned dark and stayed that way until the middle of the afternoon. ⁴⁵^(A) The sun stopped shining, and the curtain in the temple^[a] split down the middle. ⁴⁶^(B) Jesus shouted, “Father, I put myself in your hands!” Then he died.

⁴⁷When the Roman officer saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Jesus must really have been a good man!”

⁴⁸A crowd had gathered to see the terrible sight. Then after they had seen it, they felt brokenhearted and went home. ⁴⁹^(C) All of Jesus' close friends and the women who had come with him from Galilee stood at a distance and watched.

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Footnotes

23.45 curtain in the temple: There were two curtains in the temple. One was at the entrance, and the other separated the holy place from the most holy place that the Jewish people thought of as God's home on earth. The second curtain is probably the one which is meant.