45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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:
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. …
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. …
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-49)We have here the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus. I. The place where our Lord Jesus was put to death. 1. They came to a place called Golgotha, near adjoining to Jerusalem, probably the common place of execution. If he had had a house of his own in Jerusalem, probably, for his greater disgrace, they would have crucified him before his own door. But now in the same place where criminals were sacrifice…
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