Matthew 27:45
From noon until three o'clock darkness covered the whole country.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
In Context
44The rebels who were crucified with him also insulted him in the same way.
Cross References
Isaiah 50:3I can make the heavens go dark, covering them with sackcloth like they're in mourning.
Mark 15:25It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.
Luke 23:44By this time it was around noon and darkness fell over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
Revelation 9:2He opened the entrance to the Abyss, and smoke came up out of the Abyss like the smoke of a huge furnace. The sun and the atmosphere became dark because of the smoke from the Abyss.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:34-50
The Crucifixion. 33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, 34 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. 35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. 36 And sitting down they watched him there; 37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS… Read the whole commentary →