Matthew 27:45
Now from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon there was darkness over the whole land;
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
In Context
44Insults of the same kind were heaped on Him even by the robbers who were being crucified with Him.
Cross References
Mark 15:25It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified Him.
Luke 23:44It was now about noon, and a darkness came over the whole country till three o'clock in the afternoon.
Revelation 9:2and he opened the depths of the bottomless pit. And smoke came up out of the pit resembling the smoke of a vast furnace, so that the sun was darkened, and the air also, by reason of 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 →