Matthew 27:45

After mid-day a darkness came over all the country, lasting till three in the afternoon.

Twentieth Century 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

44Even the robbers, who were crucified with him, reviled him in the same way.

46And about three Jesus called out loudly: “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabacthani” — that is to say, ‘O my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?’

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Cross References

Mark 15:25It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.

Luke 23:44It was nearly mid-day, when a darkness came over the whole country, lasting till three in the afternoon,

Revelation 9:2He opened the bottomless pit, and from the pit rose a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air grew dark 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 →

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