Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
King James Version
In Context
44The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
Cross References
Isaiah 50:3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
Mark 15:25And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
Luke 23:44And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Revelation 9:2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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 →