MARK 15:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.”
At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon — the three hours of darkness (sixth to ninth hour) fulfill the prophetic darkness of judgment: Amos 8:9 (I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight), Joel 2:31 (the sun will be turned to darkness). The cosmic darkness communicates that what is happening at Calvary is not merely a Roman execution but a cosmic event — the hour of darkness (Luke 22:53) that Jesus identified at his arrest.
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