from the sixth hour … unto the ninth hour From 12 to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the hours of the Paschal sacrifice.

there was darkness over all the land Not the darkness of an eclipse, for it was the time of the Paschal full moon, but a miraculous darkness symbolic of that solemn hour and veiling the agonies of the Son of Man, when human soul and body alike were enduring the extremity of anguish and suffering for sin.

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