Luke 23:44

World English Bible (2000)

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

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  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
  • Acts 2:20 : 20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
  • Hab 3:8-9 : 8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation? 9 You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers. 10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high. 11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
  • Matt 27:52 : 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
  • Mark 15:33-34 : 33 When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
  • Mark 15:39 : 39 When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
  • John 19:14 : 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." 22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
  • Ps 105:28 : 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
  • Joel 2:31 : 31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
  • Amos 5:18 : 18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

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