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إنجيل القدّيس متّى 54-45:27
ومِنَ الظُّهْرِ حَتَّى السَّاعَةِ الثَّالِثَة، خَيَّمَ ظَلامٌ عَلى الأَرْضِ كُلِّهَا.
ونَحْوَ السَّاعَةِ الثَّالِثَة، صَرَخَ يَسُوعُ بِصَوْتٍ عَظِيمٍ قَائِلاً: «إِيْلِي، إِيْلِي، لِمَا شَبَقْتَنِي؟ أَيْ: إِلهِي، إِلهِي، لِمَاذَا تَرَكْتَنِي؟».
وسَمِعَهُ بَعْضُ الوَاقِفِينَ هُنَاكَ فَقَالُوا: «إِنَّهُ يُنَادِي إِيليَّا!».
وفي الحَالِ أَسْرَعَ وَاحِدٌ مِنْهُم، وأَخَذَ إِسْفَنْجَة، فَغَمَسَهَا في الخَلّ، ووَضَعَهَا عَلى قَصَبَة، وقَدَّمَ إِليْهِ لِيَشْرَب.
فقَالَ البَاقُون: «دَعْنَا نَرَى هَلْ يَأْتِي إِيْلِيَّا ويُخَلِّصُهُ!».
فَصَرَخَ يَسُوعُ مَرَّةً ثَانِيَةً بِصَوْتٍ عَظِيْم، وأَسْلَمَ الرُّوح!
وإذَا حِجَابُ مَقْدِسِ الهَيْكَلِ قَدِ ٱنْشَقَّ إِلى ٱثْنَيْن، مِنْ أَعْلى إِلى أَسْفَل، والأَرْضُ تَزَلْزَلَتْ، والصُّخُورُ تَصَدَّعَتْ،
والقُبُورُ تَفَتَّحَتْ، وقَامَ كَثِيرٌ مِنْ أَجْسَادِ القِدِّيسينَ الرَّاقِدِين،
وخَرَجُوا مِنَ القُبُورِ بَعْدَ قِيَامَةِ يَسُوع، ودَخَلُوا المَدِينَةَ المُقَدَّسَة، وتَراءَوا لِكَثِيرِين.
أَمَّا قَائِدُ المِئَةِ والحَرَسُ الَّذينَ مَعَهُ، فَإِنَّهُم لَمَّا رَأَوا الزِّلزَالَ ومَا حَدَث، ٱسْتَولى عَلَيهِم خَوْفٌ شَدِيد، وقَالُوا: حَقًّا، كَانَ هذَا ٱبْنَ ٱلله
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 7:31-37.
Again he left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis.
And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him.
He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue;
then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”)
And (immediately) the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly.
He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it.
They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and (the) mute speak.”