Matthew 27:45
Good News Translation
At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.

New Revised Standard Version
From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Contemporary English Version
At noon the sky turned dark and stayed that way until three o'clock.

New American Bible
From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

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Mark 15:25,33,34 And it was the third hour: and they crucified him. . . .

Luke 23:44,45 And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. . . .

darkness.

Isaiah 50:3 I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth their covering.

Amos 8:9 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out, and run down as the river of Egypt?

Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded the trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars, so that the third part of them was darkened. And the day did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.

Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.

Context
The Death of Jesus
44And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with him reproached him with. 45Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour. 46And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?…
Cross References
Mark 15:33
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour.

Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted: My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?

Luke 23:44
And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

John 19:14
And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.

Acts 3:1
Now Peter and John went up into the temple at the ninth hour of prayer.

Matthew 27:44
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