Matthew 27:45
And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land to the ninth hour,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
In Context
44with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with Him, were reproaching Him.
Cross References
Isaiah 50:3I clothe the heavens [with] blackness, || And I make their covering sackcloth.”
Mark 15:25and it was the third hour, and they crucified Him;
Luke 23:44And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour,
Revelation 9:2and [he] opened the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened from 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 →