And when the sixth hour was come,.... Or twelve o'clock at noon, having hung upon the cross from about the third hour, or nine in the morning:there was darkness over the, whole land until the ninth hour; or three o'clock in the afternoon.
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Mark 15:33
Mark 15:33
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