Mark 15:33
New International Version
At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

New Living Translation
At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock.

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

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

Berean Literal Bible
And the sixth hour having arrived, darkness came over the whole land, until the ninth hour.

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

New King James Version
Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

New American Standard Bible
When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

NASB 1995
When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

NASB 1977
And when the sixth hour had come, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Legacy Standard Bible
And when the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Amplified Bible
When the sixth hour (noon) came, darkness covered the whole land until the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.).

Christian Standard Bible
When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when it was the sixth hour, darkness was over all the earth until the ninth hour.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
At noon darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

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

International Standard Version
At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Literal Standard Version
And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour,

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

New American Bible
At noon darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

NET Bible
Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

New Revised Standard Version
When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

New Heart English Bible
Now when it was noon, there was darkness over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land, until the ninth hour.

Weymouth New Testament
At noon there came a darkness over the whole land, lasting till three o'clock in the afternoon.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Death of Jesus
32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” And even those who were crucified with Him berated Him. 33 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. 34At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”…

Cross References
Matthew 20:5
So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.

Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

Mark 15:25
It was the third hour when they crucified Him.

Luke 23:44
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.


Treasury of Scripture

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

when.

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

Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

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

darkness.

Psalm 105:28
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

Isaiah 50:3,4
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering…

Amos 8:9,10
And 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: …

Jump to Previous
Afternoon Dark Darkness Fell Hour Lasting Ninth Noon O'clock Sixth Three Whole
Jump to Next
Afternoon Dark Darkness Fell Hour Lasting Ninth Noon O'clock Sixth Three Whole
Mark 15
1. Jesus brought bound, and accused before Pilate.
6. Upon the clamor of the people, the murderer Barabbas is released,
12. and Jesus delivered up to be crucified.
16. He is crowned with thorns, spit on, and mocked;
21. faints in bearing his cross;
27. hangs between two thieves;
29. suffers the triumphing reproaches of the crowd;
39. but is confessed by the centurion to be the Son of God;
42. and is honorably buried by Joseph.














Verse 33. - And when the sixth hour was come. This would be midday, twelve o'clock; and the darkness continued until the ninth hour, that is, three o'clock. This supernatural darkness came when the day is wont to be at its brightest. The moon was now at the full, so that it could not have been caused by what we call an eclipse, for when it is full moon the moon cannot intervene between the earth and the sun. This darkness was doubtless produced by the immediate interference of God. An account of it is given by Phlegon of Tralles, a freedman of the Emperor Adrian. Euse-bius, in his records of the year A.D. , quotes at length from Phlegon, who says that, in the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad, there was a great and remarkable eclipse of the sun, above any that had happened before. At the sixth hour the day was turned into the darkness of night, so that stars were seen in the heaven; and there was a great earthquake in Bithynia, which overthrew many houses in the city of Nicaea. Phlegon attributes the darkness which he describes to an eclipse, which was natural enough for him to do. The knowledge of astronomy was then very imperfect. Phlegon also mentions an earthquake. This brings his account into very close correspondence with the sacred narrative. There was darkness ever the whole land (ἐφ ὅλην τὴν γῆν). "Land" is a better rendering than "earth." We are not informed precisely how far the darkness extended. Dionysius says that he saw this phenomenon at Heliopolis, in Egypt, and he is reported to have exclaimed, "Either the God of nature, the Creator, is suffering, or the universe dissolving." St. Cyprian says, "The sun was constrained to withdraw his rays, and close his eyes, that he might not be compelled to look upon this crime of the Jews. To the same purpose St. Chrysostom, "The creature could net bear the wrong done to its Creator. Therefore the sun withdrew his rays, that he might not behold the deeds of the wicked."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
From [the] sixth
ἕκτης (hektēs)
Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1623: Sixth. Ordinal from hex; sixth.

hour
ὥρας (hōras)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 5610: Apparently a primary word; an 'hour'.

until
ἕως (heōs)
Preposition
Strong's 2193: A conjunction, preposition and adverb of continuance, until.

[the] ninth
ἐνάτης (enatēs)
Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1766: Ninth. Ordinal from ennea; ninth.

hour
ὥρας (hōras)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 5610: Apparently a primary word; an 'hour'.

darkness
σκότος (skotos)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 4655: Darkness, either physical or moral. From the base of skia; shadiness, i.e. Obscurity.

came
ἐγένετο (egeneto)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

over
ἐφ’ (eph’)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

all
ὅλην (holēn)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3650: All, the whole, entire, complete. A primary word; 'whole' or 'all', i.e. Complete, especially as noun or adverb.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

land.
γῆν (gēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1093: Contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe.


Links
Mark 15:33 NIV
Mark 15:33 NLT
Mark 15:33 ESV
Mark 15:33 NASB
Mark 15:33 KJV

Mark 15:33 BibleApps.com
Mark 15:33 Biblia Paralela
Mark 15:33 Chinese Bible
Mark 15:33 French Bible
Mark 15:33 Catholic Bible

NT Gospels: Mark 15:33 When the sixth hour had come there (Mar Mk Mr)
Mark 15:32
Top of Page
Top of Page