KJV King James Version
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
WEB World English Bible
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
ASV American Standard Version
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,
Surrounding context — Matthew 27
42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
46 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?
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard [that], said, This [man] calleth for Elias.
48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled [it] with vinegar, and put [it] on a reed, and gave him to drink.
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ἈπὸG575 · apoaway fromδὲG1161 · dethenἕκτηςG1623 · hektossixthὥραςG5610 · hōrahourσκότοςG4655 · skotosdarknessἐγένετοG1096 · ginomaito beἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstπᾶσανG3956 · pasallτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoγῆνG1093 · gēearth: planetἕωςG2193 · heōsuntilὥραςG5610 · hōrahourἐνάτης.G1766 · ennatosninth (hour)
Cross-references
Amos 8:9And 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 15:33-34And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.Luke 23:44-45And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.Isaiah 50:3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.Revelation 9:2And 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 15:25And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.Revelation 8:12And 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.
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