Matthew 27:45
But from the sixth hour, darknesses were made on all the earth [or upon all the land], till [to] the ninth hour. (But from noon, darkness was made upon all the land, until three o’clock in the afternoon.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
In Context
44And the thieves, that were crucified with him, upbraided him of the same thing.
Cross References
Isaiah 50:3I shall clothe (the) heavens with darknesses, and I shall set a sackcloth (to be) the covering of them.
Mark 15:25And it was the third hour (or about nine o’clock in the morning), and they crucified him.
Luke 23:44And it was almost the sixth hour, and darknesses were made on all the earth, into the ninth hour [or till the ninth hour]. (And it was almost noon, and then darkness came upon all the land, until three o’clock.)
Revelation 9:2And it opened the pit of deepness [or And he opened the pit of deepness], and a smoke of the pit ascended up, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darked, and the air, of the smoke of the pit, (or and 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 →