The cry from the cross

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani — kept untranslated in a Greek text.

In plain words

“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani”: the Gospel, written in Greek, keeps this cry in the sound it was spoken in. It is the debt actually borne; you do not keep the exact sound unless you could not forget it.

The mechanism

THE DEBT ACTUALLY BORNE — the Gospel is written in Greek; this line stayed in the sound a dying man made. You do not preserve phonetics unless you could not forget the noise

Scripture

Mark 15:34

How it was checked

• EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED
• Letter eraTHE PAYMENT c. 30 AD
• Plate — Gustave Doré, wood engraving, La Sainte Bible, 1866 · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Doré_-_Crucifixion_of_Jesus.jpg
• SourcesSCRIPTURE — Mark 15:34