Science historian Livio Catullo Stecchini and Jan Sammer write, "The limits of Mark‘s knowledge of Hebrew are revealed by the sentence Elo[h]i Elo[h]i Lama Sabachthani which he puts into the mouth of Jesus.
Mark's grasp of Hebrew is revealed to be restricted by his inclusion of the sentence Elo[h]i Elo[h]i Lama Sabachthani in the dialogue of Jesus.