Matthew 27:45
43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
44 In the same way, even the robbers who were crucified with Him berated Him.
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He is calling Elijah.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
- KJV
- Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
- WEB
- Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
- ASV
- Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
- DARBY
- Now from [the] sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until [the] ninth hour;
- BLB
- And from the sixth hour darkness was over all the land until the ninth hour.
- ÅB
- Men fra den sjette time ble det mørke over hele landet like til den niende time.
- OTB
- Fra den sjette time til den niende time falt det mørke over hele landet.
- B1930
- Men fra den sjette time blev det mørke over hele landet like til den niende time.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 8:9
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
Read in contextMark 15:33–34
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Read in contextIsaiah 50:3
I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
Read in contextLuke 23:44–45
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.
Read in contextRevelation 9:2
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
Read in contextMark 15:25
It was the third hour when they crucified Him.
Read in contextRevelation 8:12
Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
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