My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
⛓ Read Psalm 22 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Jesus' cry 'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?' — interpreted 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' — is a formal quotation of the psalm's opening line, given in Aramaic (a Targum-like rendering of the Hebrew). This is the climactic citation that retrospectively unlocks the whole chapter's reliance on Psalm 22, and it is the highest-volume, most explicit OT use in Mark 15.
High confidence'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' — Jesus' cry, given in Aramaic ('Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani') and then translated, is a direct quotation of the opening line of Psalm 22, the climactic and most explicit of the chapter's Psalm 22 citations.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The taunt that God will not save the sufferer anticipates and frames the cry of dereliction (v. 34); the mockers unwittingly voice the psalm's opening abandonment that Jesus will quote. The recurrence of Psalm 22 across the scene strengthens this proleptic echo.
Low confidence