# My God and Your God

[John 20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+20\&version=NIV)

> 17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘<mark style="color:red;">I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.</mark>’”

[Matthew 27](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+27\&version=NIV)

> 45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, *“Eli, Eli,*\[[c](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+27\&version=NIV#fen-NIV-24176c)] *lema* *sabachthani?”* (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).\[[d](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+27\&version=NIV#fen-NIV-24176d)]