"Jesus/I AM is Beautiful – part 2” Ken Williams “And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’” (Mat. 27:46 NRSV). Luke and John did not include Jesus’ dying wail of agony in their gospels. I’m grateful Matthew and Mark did. For years I could not imagine why the Word, through whom we came into being, why he became flesh and chose to suffer the violent, humiliating agony of crucifixion. I appreciate the psalmist’s incomprehension, “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have ...