Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour, there was darkness over the whole land.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
In Context
44The robbers who were crucified with him were also reviling him in the same way.
Cross References
Mark 15:25It was the third hour when they crucified him.
Luke 23:44Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Revelation 9:2He opened the pit of the abyss, and from the pit rose smoke like the smoke of a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from 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 →