It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.
It was then almost noon of the day before the Passover. Pilate said to the people, “Here is your king!”
At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.
These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning.
It was about twelve o'clock when the sun stopped shining and darkness covered the whole country until three o'clock; and the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two.
At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?”