Matthew 27:45
Now from noon darkness fell upon the whole land, until three o’clock in the afternoon.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
In Context
44In the same way the robbers also who were being crucified with him, dept reviling him.
Cross References
Mark 15:25It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.
Luke 23:44It was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Revelation 9:2And he opened the bottomless pit, and out of the pit there went up a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air grew dark, because of the smoke out 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 →