The World and Everything in It: April 7, 2023

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning and Good Friday! Today on Culture Friday, we’ll talk about how a man at the center of a political scandal saw in that a proof of the biblical account of the Resurrection of Christ.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Right, John Stonestreet will talk about his mentor Chuck Colson. And we’ll discuss the incentives of modern corporate finance that enable the likes of Dylan Mulvaney. That’s ahead on Culture Friday.

Plus what does it take to land a good Christian movie?

CONTROLLER 1: Fort Myers approach I have a full-on emergency.

CONTROLLER 2: State your emergency.

CONTROLLER 1: King Air Niner Delta Whiskey has an unconscious pilot. He needs help. Can you assist?

EICHER: And Ask the Editor with Paul Butler.

BROWN: It’s Friday, April 7th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

SOUND: [ROCKETS]

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Rockets fired at Israel » Israeli rockets slammed the Gaza Strip overnight after militants fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Thursday.

NETANYAHU: [Speaking Hebrew]

In a televised address, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "I made it very clear that our enemy shouldn’t test us.”

Israeli officials say militants fired 34 rockets from southern Lebanon yesterday. The country’s aerial defense system shot down 25 of them.

Lebanese officials say the rockets originated in a region controlled by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

House subpoenas former Manhattan DA » House Republicans are investigating Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg for what they say is a politically motivated prosecution of former President Trump. And they’re calling a key witness. WORLD’s Josh Schumcher has more.

JOSH SCHUMACHER: Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz to testify. Pomerantz led the Manhattan DA’s probe into the former president’s finances. He wanted prosecutor Alvin Bragg to file charges against the president sooner and resigned last year in protest of what he considered an unacceptable delay.

Jordan’s committee said “Pomerantz’s public statements about the investigation strongly suggest that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump is politically motivated.”

Jordan’s committee says Bragg is trying to interfere in a federal election. Bragg charges that federal lawmakers are wrongly wading into a state’s legal matter.

For WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.

Biden review of Afghanistan » The Biden administration says the deadly and chaotic troop pullout from Afghanistan was former President Donald Trump’s fault.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby spoke to reporters Thursday about the findings of an internal review.

JOHN KIRBY: While it was always the president’s intent to end that war, it is also undeniable that decisions made and the lack of planning done by the previous administration significantly limited options available to him.

The White House released a 12-page summary of its review, which takes little responsibility for its own actions.

President Biden ordered the withdrawal, which took place in August of 2021, seven months after Trump left office.

Former President Trump set the wheels in motion for the pullout, but Republicans note that Biden never hesitated to reverse other Trump policies. And they say Trump cannot be blamed for the disastrous handling of the withdrawal.

Bill Roggio with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies said failures in Afghanistan span multiple administrations.

BILL ROGGIO: But President Biden should not be pointing the finger at President Trump.

Thirteen US service members and more than 100 Afghans were killed at the Kabul airport as the American military left. 

Tennessee House » Political drama in Tennessee where the Republican majority in the state House has voted to expel two Democratic lawmakers from the legislature.

They voted to oust Rep. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they broke House rules with an unruly protest in the well of the chamber.

SOUND: [PROTEST]

Jones heard there shouting into a bullhorn as gun control activists joined in. That followed a mass shooting last month at a Christian school in Nashville.

A third Democratic lawmaker who participated in the protest survived a vote to remove her.

Republicans says the move was a response to serious misconduct. Critics charge it was political retaliation.

Idaho abortion » In Idaho, a new law protects unborn children and pregnant minors from abortion trafficking. WORLD’s Lillian Hamman has more.

LILLIAN HAMMAN: Idaho Governor Brad Little signed the first law against abortion trafficking this week.

Under the law, an adult could get two to five years in prison for helping a minor cross state lines to get an abortion or obtain abortion pills. Parents can also sue that adult with some exceptions.

Planned Parenthood says the law may violate the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees interstate travel.

The law only affects the in-state segment of the trip to an out-of-state abortion provider.

A court case over whether doctors can refer patients for out-of-state abortions might have an effect on the new abortion trafficking law.

For WORLD, I’m Lillian Hamman.

France protests » Protesters in France are renewing their call for President Emmanuel Macron to scrap his new pension bill which raises the national retirement age from 62 to 64.

BINET: [Speaking French]

French labor union representative Sophie Binet said Macron cannot govern against the opinion of the people. Talks between union leaders and the government were unsuccessful on Wednesday.

The government says the change is necessary to keep the pension fund from going broke.

Macron pushed the bill through parliament without a vote last month.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet.

Plus, answering the question, why is the news so heavy?

This is The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s the 7th day of April 2023.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I'm Myrna Brown. It's Culture Friday!

Joining us now is John Stonestreet, the president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. John, good morning.

STONESTREET: Good morning.

BROWN: Well, John, here we are on Good Friday, and I’m reminded of something Chuck Colson said about the resurrection, and I’d like for you to talk about it. He said he knew the resurrection of Jesus had to be factual, because Watergate proved it to him.

Talk about how those two go together—the Watergate conspiracy and the resurrection of Christ—how that logical proof works. and whether you can think of any contemporary examples where conspirators simply couldn’t hold it together.

STONESTREET: Oh goodness, that's a loaded question after this week, isn't it? What happened there is that Watergate featured some of the most powerful men in the world working together with all the resources of power and the resources of influence, and they couldn't hold the story together at all. And so what you have with the Gospel accounts or, you know was, Gary Habermas calls it “the minimalist facts approach” that one of the facts that we can largely accept is that the tomb was empty. Because this whole thing could have been upended. And the whole theory of the resurrection would have been so quickly squashed had we just had a body that had been produced by those who were in charge. So here you have a group of men who had reason to explain the empty tomb away with a story. If they all had the same kind of story of this is what happened. And they're not just claiming a spiritual resurrection, that would have been an easy thing to do. Right? Just, oh, you know, he ascended into heaven. In fact, I think the New York Times said, That's what Christians believe. That's not what Christians believe. That's what they said last year, if I remember, right. That's not what Christians, we believe that Jesus who was dead, rose again, walked around in a physical body and was seen by an awful lot of people. And if that was just a conspiracy, a common explanation that a group of men came together and decided that they were going to articulate even though they knew it wasn't true. Well, that's what Chuck was talking about. With Watergate, you had powerful people, with the disciples, you had people without power. And if the Watergate conspirators couldn't hold their story, their explanation together, then the disciples weren't either. And I think that's why so many people find it so powerful. I share this every year on social media, and it's by far the most shared thing that I do on social media. So if you want to get that and share, you can go to my Facebook page, or you can go to Twitter, and you will, you will find it pretty quickly. And it's a wonderful thing to share. You know, either that, or one of the BC comics by Johnny Hart, the Easter ones, those are two great ways Christians can be redemptive on social media this time of year.

EICHER: Last week, John, when you weren’t here we talked with Katie McCoy, who’d just sent off a book to the publisher, so it’s months away from getting out to the public. But it was on the subject of gender confusion among females, and so we spent our entire time on the attack on the Covenant School in Nashville. And it was appropriate we talked with an expert like Katie because the attacker was gender-confused.

Now, we don’t have the full story because we don’t have access to the manifesto. At WORLD  we are making legal efforts to get it. But we ran into a roadblock, because now the F-B-I has the manifesto, and that’s a different level of difficult. So we’ll see. We are going to do what we can to force a timely release.

What I’ve noticed, though, in the meantime, is that this story has really fallen out of the headlines. Why do you suppose that is?

STONESTREET: Well, I mean I, you know, I don't want to be cynical, but it seems obvious enough that it's the same reason that the Club Q shooting dropped out of the headlines in the days after that here in Colorado Springs, you had members of the LGBT “community” you know, widely condemning the Christian voices here in town, which of course are many. Focus on the Family's entrance, the sign was vandalized. 'The blood is on your hands' is what was said. And this was a narrative that had been repeated in maybe more articulate language by opinion writers in the New York Times about was something that was repeated over and over and then suddenly it went absolutely quiet. The moment it went absolutely quiet is when the shooter in the Club Q tragedy identified as non-binary. And there was evidence that he had frequented the club, and then it got quiet. We haven't heard a thing. This is, I think, the same story. Now the Christian community in Nashville, the people who had children at that school, who are trying to help assure their kids that how many rounds did we find out this week were fired within the buildings, over 150 They've got some long term things there to deal with. I heard that many of them, one of the police officers who told their account this week, I don't know if you saw that, Nick basically saying, you know, what we see in these kids is that they believe in eternity. They believe in heaven. They believe that their classmates, though they miss them, and that they love them are in a better place. They're doing better than we are. That's what the police officer said. So why is it then that even in continued attention by children is being handled one way in a media who can't push forward the narrative, and this goes in the face of that even more than the Club Q shooting did suddenly are silent? Well, I think it has to do with the power of worldview. What you see has an awful lot to do with what lens you're looking through. And to a you know, somebody wearing yellow glasses, the world looks yellow. Someone wearing Buddhist glasses, or Muslim glasses, the world looks Buddhist and Muslim. To a Christian, the world looks Christian. Now, let me just say definitively: a trans person did do this. That part is clear. That's not the same thing as saying that all trans people did, and they were motivated by something. And we have that motivation, in a manifesto that hasn't been released, it needs to be released. It needs to be released. And that's going to help I think make even more sense of, if there is silence or if there's not silence, we're going to be able to see it even more acutely at that point.

EICHER: Okay, John, Dylan Mulvaney, corporate pitchman, playing the part of an overexcited teenage girl. I don’t want to talk about that, per se. Everyone’s had a hot take on that, and Babylon Bee is the best at that.

What I want to talk about is the sophisticated, behind-the-scenes work that makes things like this happen. We’ve heard of diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI. It’s a huge thing in corporate America. ESG, environmental, social, and governance. It’s a big thing in corporate finance.

And it dovetails well with the Human Rights Campaign and its Corporate Equality Index. If you don’t know, the HRC is an LGBT pressure group, $40 million dollar nonprofit, and it punches well above its revenues weight.

The Fortune 500 companies, more than half of them have perfect, 100-percent CEI scores from the Human Rights Campaign, and Anheuser-Busch InBev is one of those. It’s no coincidence. You don’t get a perfect score without paying attention to it. And that’s how you get Dylan Mulvaney. It’s really quite a genius strategy.

STONESTREET: Well, it is genius on behalf of those who are trying to promote an agenda. And the reason has to do with how we think and understand culture. You talk about the success of a movement, the steam at which the LGBTQ movement gained power. And I'm not talking about gaining prominence or gaining adherence, I'm talking about when it really gained power, had to do with the business and corporate community. You can go back, we're all old enough here go back just 10-15 years, and there was a dominant presence of this ideology or various forms of it in media and in movies. But if you think about culture as being a you know, made up of various spheres, the you know, business sphere and a church sphere and estate sphere, when everything started to click was when there was an influence that was garnered over corporations. And the HRC has been the tool through which this movement has actually gained power over these corporations to such an extent that, although I think there is some financial just pure calculation happening on behalf of, you know, Anheuser Busch, and Disney and some of the things, money is no longer the ultimate guide to the right thing for them to do. Now, I think profit at some level has to be, but it's probably less how many beers are we going to sell to How hard are we going to be hit and hurt if we don't do what they tell us to do? And so that's what you have. It is a genius move on one side and it's a just a calculating move on the other side. I'm not sure that it's a true believer sort of thing. Although I think HR departments in businesses and corporations across America are stacked with true believers. And those true believers are able to leverage kind of these weapons. But look, it is no small thing to consider the fact of how every single group bows on the gender issue to transgender activists including the other letters of the acronym. There hasn't been a successful trans movement on its own terms yet. It was a hijacking of the L the G and the B. It was a hijacking of the Black Lives Matter movement. I mean, what other movement was able to take the Black Lives Matter movement and say, Oh, no, no, no, you have to add another word. We got black trans lives matter. That's what we got in sort of an official name. So that even the the official movement itself has to include this language and, and now, of course, at the government level, all of these post-Dobbs pro-abortion laws like what we have now in Colorado, which has still yet to be signed by the governor, but passed without much resistance, radical, radical pro-abortion laws that take Roe v. Wade, three steps down the road, and you know, what's there? Trans rights are reproductive rights, which makes no sense, because trans is actually a denial of biological reproduction. But trans rights are reproductive rights is in Massachusetts, Michigan, Colorado. It is an amazing sort of thing. I'm tempted here just to quote the Babylon Bee. One of its more funny headlines was about this issue, where it said a beverage that pretends to be a beer employs a spokesperson that pretends to be a woman, that was a pretty again, not satire that's actually an accurate headline.

BROWN: John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. John, I hope you have a wonderful Easter, I know it’s Good Friday today, but let’s look forward to Easter Sunday and sign off by saying, He is Risen!

STONESTREET: Thank you, and He is risen indeed. And that's something that we should all celebrate. Take a break from the headlines, and lock in and let that reground us again this week.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, April 7th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It, another faith-based movie takes off from a major studio.

Movies with Christian themes have been popular with audiences lately. Last weekend at the box office, two Christian movies made the top ten. A film telling the story of Abraham and Isaac—titled His Only Son—had an impressive debut at No. 3, and the surprise hit of February, Jesus Revolution, was still in there at No. 10.

BROWN: It would appear that major studios are starting to realize there’s a market for family-friendly, faith-affirming movies. Today, MGM Studios has a film titled On a Wing and a Prayer. It debuts on Amazon’s Prime Video. But is this faith-based film worth watching on Good Friday? 

Here’s WORLD’s arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino with a review.

COLLIN GARBARINO: On a Wing and a Prayer is a new faith-based film that dramatizes the true events of Easter 2009, when Doug White and his family got stuck in a plane at 10,000 feet without a pilot.

MUSIC: [“Amazing Grace”]

The story begins when Doug White and his family travel to Florida for his brother’s funeral. Dennis Quaid plays Doug. He’s a successful man with a beautiful family. But Doug struggles with his faith after losing his brother. His wife Terri, played by Heather Graham, tries to offer words of comfort to no avail.

TERRI: I’m so sorry you’re hurting. God’s going to get us through.

DOUG: Well, is that the same God that let this happen.

TERRI: Well, you need to—

DOUG: It’s not going to bring my brother back.

On Easter Sunday they board a private plane to fly home to Louisiana, but ten minutes after takeoff their pilot suffers a heart attack leaving the family on the brink of disaster.

CONTROLLER 1: Fort Myers approach I have a full-on emergency.

CONTROLLER 2: State your emergency.

CONTROLLER 1: King Air Niner Delta Whiskey has an unconscious pilot. He needs help. Can you assist?

A storm is brewing in the Gulf, and air traffic control doesn't have much hope for the situation. An unlikely team forms to help Doug land the plane.

CONTROLLER: We’re getting you some help from another pilot who’s familiar with the airplane.

DOUG: Is he in the control tower with you?

CONTROLLER: From my understanding, he is in Connecticut. But I understand he’s a very skilled and experienced airman.

Through trusting in someone he cannot see, Doug learns to “let go and let God.”

It’s not really a spoiler for me to say that Terri gets the miracle she prayed for and everyone—except the original pilot—arrives back at the airport safely.

SOUND: [Inspiring music and cheering]

This film is another example of the faith-based genre getting marginally better. On a Wing and a Prayer boasts respectable production values with bona fide (albeit aging) stars.

The sets feel authentic. The special effects won’t win prizes, but they are pretty good for a straight-to-streaming film. Some of the performers, especially Graham, might be guilty of overacting—but let’s be honest, some of us Southerners really are that over the top.

TERRI: The girls are fine.

DOUG: I don’t want them to see me panic.

TERRI: Well, you’re not going to panic. The girls are fine. You can do this, Doug! And you sort of have to if you ever want to eat my barbeque sauce again.

On a Wing and a Prayer has a lot going for it. It’s a shame the script is such an awful mess.

Being based on a true story gives this disaster movie a built-in sense of urgency, but the film adds some fictional complications that stretch credulity. The movie also squanders its promising setup with a series of confusing introductions to the various characters.

In true faith-based-movie fashion, the script invents a crisis of faith or inner turmoil for each character. The much-prayed-for miracle inspires everyone who witnessed it to do better.

CAPTAIN: Marco Traffic, King Air November Five Five Niner Delta Whiskey. Runway 1-7 for a southwest departure.

The script is full of pious cliches that strike me as a soft prosperity gospel.

In too many movies like this, someone prays and receives some sort of temporal blessing. It’s not always the success they hoped for, but it’s success nonetheless. Faith-based films are littered with people who begin the movie with bad family relationships. By the end of the movie, someone’s had a change of heart because their “faith has been restored”—whatever that means—and suddenly bad family relationships are good. Faith gets discussed with vague language about God’s goodness or power or mere existence. Doubts and fears are conquered, but precious little gets said about Jesus’ mission to save sinners.

These stories offer a cheap imitation of Jesus’ gospel. Jesus doesn’t promise His followers physical safety, temporal happiness, or healthy relationships. Often He promises the opposite. Once upon a time, the church took inspiration from the stories of the martyrs. What does it say about contemporary Christianity that we want inspiring stories about victories in the here and now? It’s almost as if our faith no longer rests on what is unseen.

Good Friday, above all days, is a day to reflect on the fact that the faithful victorious Christian life might look like defeat to the world.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Next up on The World and Everything in It: Ask the Editor for April. Here’s WORLD Radio Executive Producer Paul Butler.

PAUL BUTLER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Last July we started a new initiative at WORLD.

SOUND: [OPEN FROM RECENT SIFTCAST]

The Sift is our three-minute newscast updated six times throughout the day. Moody Radio, Faith Radio, and a handful of independent stations currently carry it.

A couple weeks ago, one of our radio partners sent me this inquiry after a focus group discussion with some of their listeners. He writes:

Paul,

[We] appreciate the news from a Christian Worldview but are left with the heavy burden of what’s happening. Is it possible to end The Sift with a story of how God is working?

Signed Ben.

Reading between the lines, it seems that what these listeners are longing for is more good news in our coverage. In each Sift we cover five headline stories. And to be honest, much of that news, in fact I might even say most of that news, is as these listeners say: “heavy.” I want you to remember that word, we’re going to come back to it.

But first, back to the question at hand: is it possible to select one in five stories that highlights how God is working? I’m going to begin by challenging the implied premise. It sounds like the question equates “God at work” with “good news” stories—or at least “less heavy” stories. But what does “God at work” actually mean?

A few examples: God is obviously at work as a faithful missionary team completes a 20+ year project of Bible translation for a people who didn’t previously have it. We’d probably agree that God is at work when hundreds come forward at an evangelistic rally. But what about when a Christian leader is caught in a web of lies? Is God at work then? I would argue the same: yes He is. And then what about the rest of the news?

Here at WORLD, the sovereignty of God is at the core of our philosophy of journalism. We believe by faith that God is at work in every situation, every story, not just the good news ones. Even though we don’t often see it, God is at work through corrupt partisan politicians, fires and bad weather, and even bank failures and geo-political conflicts on the international stage. And if that’s the case, then every story we cover is already about events where God is at work.

Here’s how our WORLD handbook describes it:

Some Christian publications emphasize happy news, but to be Biblically objective Christian reporters we need to cover sorrow, tragedy, and even evil.

When I replied to Ben, he listened with an open heart. His reply made me smile. He simply suggested that perhaps we could communicate how God is working in every story.

Ah, there’s the rub isn’t it? Because we frequently just don’t know.

On this Good Friday, Christians around the world remember the darkest hours in human history. The one who spoke everything into being…was tried by sinful man, mocked, beaten, tortured, and killed in the most painful way imaginable. It looked as though the light of the world had been snuffed out. If we had been covering that event at the time, it would have been difficult to do so “positively.” In fact, if those who’d been with Jesus for three years couldn’t see what was going on. I’m certain we wouldn’t have been able to comprehend how God was at work either. Talk about heavy news.

But then—after the resurrection—it all began to make sense. The disciples remembered what Jesus had said. They realized that what Satan intended for evil, God had ordained from before the creation of the world for good. For His glory.

The Hebrew word for Glory is literally the weightiness or heaviness of God. God’s splendor, holiness, majesty—revealed as light—is described as being heavy.

So for the first disciples, the glorious heaviness of Christ’s resurrection replaced the hopeless heaviness of His crucifixion.

The gospel is a sensational story. Biblical journalism is Christ-oriented, covering both crucifixion and resurrection. As Ben points out we probably should do a better job making sure we’re covering the news of resurrection in our world—stories the secular media aren’t looking for and don’t cover. But until Christ returns, we must also continue to cover these difficult stories…for when all things are made new, even they will ultimately end up making God’s glory heavier and heavier, because He’s at work in them.

I’m Paul Butler.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, April 7th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

On this Good Friday, something different as we close today’s program.

Many listeners have told us how much they enjoy our daily scripture readings, and they’d like to hear more of it. Maybe that describes you. And if so, today we have a special treat.

We are indeed thankful for the team that helped put this week’s program together. And next week, we’ll go back to naming them one by one.

But I know I speak for a lot of people when I say … I’d listen to Myrna Brown read the phone book … but I especially love to hear her read the Scripture … so today, she’ll close this Good Friday edition of our program by reading excerpts from Mark chapter 15 … along with music from worship leader and musician Adam Wright.

BROWN: Excerpts from Mark 15:

1 Immediately, in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council; and they bound Jesus, led Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate. 2 Then Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

He answered and said to him, “It is as you say.”

3 And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing.

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12 Pilate answered and said to them again, “What then do you want me to do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”

13 So they cried out again, “Crucify Him!”

14 Then Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has He done?”

But they cried out all the more, “Crucify Him!”

15 So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged Him, to be crucified.

16 Then the soldiers led Him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they called together the whole garrison. 17 And they clothed Him with purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His head, 18 and began to salute Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 Then they struck Him on the head with a reed and spat on Him; and bowing the knee, they worshiped Him. 20 And when they had mocked Him, they took the purple off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him out to crucify Him.

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22 And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull.

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25 Now it was the third hour, and they crucified Him. 26 And the inscription of His accusation was written above: THE KING OF THE JEWS.

27 With Him they also crucified two robbers, one on His right and the other on His left. 28 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And He was numbered with the transgressors.”

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33 Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

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37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.

38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 So when the centurion, who stood opposite Him, saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said, “Truly this Man was the Son of God!”

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