Mark 15:33

When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

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WEBBE

When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

BSB

From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

And when the sixth hour had come, it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

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Καὶ Kai And G2532 γενομένης genomenēs when was arriving G1096 δὲ de now G1161 ὥρας hōras [the] hour G5610 ἕκτης hektēs sixth G1623 σκότος skotos darkness G4655 ἐγένετο egeneto came G1096 ἐφ eph᾽ over G1909 ὅλην holēn all G3650 τὴν tēn the G3588 γῆν gēn land G1093 ἕως he'ōs until G2193 ὥρας hōras [the] hour G5610 ἐνάτης enatēs ninth G1766

The early church

(de Con. Evan. 3, 17) Luke added to this account the cause of the darkness, that is, the darkening of the sun.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) This most glorious light took away its rays from the world, lest it should see the Lord hanging, and lest the blasphemers should have the benefit of its light. Wherefore it goes on: And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
If this had been the time for an eclipse, some one might have said that this that happened was natural, but it was the fourteenth moon, when no eclipse can take place. There follows: And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 33–41

There was a thick darkness over the land, from noon until three in the afternoon. The Jews were doing their utmost to extinguish the Sun of Righteousness. The darkness signified the cloud which the human soul of Christ was under, when he was making it an offering for sin. He did not complain that his disciples forsook him, but that his Father forsook him. In this especially he was made sin for us. When Paul was to be offered as a sacrifice for the service saints, he could joy and rejoice, Php 2:17; but it is another thing to be offered as a sacrifice for the sin of sinners. At the same instant that Jesus died, the veil of the temple was rent from the top to the bottom. This spake terror to the unbelieving Jews, and was a sign of the destruction of their church and nation. It speaks comfort to all believing Christians, for it signified the laying open a new and living way into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. The confidence with which Christ had openly addressed God as his Father, and committed his soul into his hands, seems greatly to have affected the centurion. Right views of Christ crucified will reconcile the believer to the thought of death; he longs to behold, love, and praise, as he ought, that Saviour who was wounded and pierced to save him from the wrath to come.

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