And when it was evening In the Jewish division of the day there were two evenings. According to the most probable view the space of time called "between the evenings" (Exodus 12:6) was from the ninth to the eleventh hour. Hence the first evening ended at 3 o'clock, the second began at 5 o'clock. In this verse the first evening is meant, in Matthew 14:23 the second.

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