Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
World English Bible
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 also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.
Cross References
Isaiah 50:3I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.”
Mark 15:25It was the third hour when they crucified him.
Luke 23:44It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Revelation 9:2He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of 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 →