"Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." — Matthew 27:45

Matthew 27:45 · KJV

“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.”

— Matthew 27:45

The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Matthew 27 — Context

He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Some of them that stood there, when they heard {that}, said, This {man} calleth for Elias.

Cross References

Amos 8:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

Mark 15:33-34

And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Luke 23:44-45

And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. {earth: or, land}

Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Revelation 9:2

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Mark 15:25

And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

Revelation 8:12

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.