At noon the whole country became dark. This darkness continued until three o’clock.
At noon the whole country became dark. The darkness continued for three hours.
It was nine o’clock in the morning when they nailed Jesus to the cross.
He sent darkness to cover their land, but the Egyptians did not listen to him.
So they went to work in the vineyard. “The man went out again about twelve o’clock and again at three o’clock. Both times he hired some others to work in his vineyard.