Nowfrom the sixthhourdarknessfellupon allthe landuntilthe ninthhour.
"I clothethe heavenswith blacknessAnd makesackcloththeir covering."
"It will comeabout in that day,"declaresthe LordGOD,"That I will make the sungodown at noonAnd makethe earthdarkin broaddaylight.
It was the thirdhourwhenthey crucifiedHim.
Nowit was the day of preparationfor the Passover;it was aboutthe sixthhour.And he saidto the Jews,"Behold,your King!"
NowPeterand Johnwere goingup to the templeat the ninth[hour], the hourof prayer.
The fourthangelsounded,and a thirdof the sunand a thirdof the moonand a thirdof the starswere struck,sothat a thirdof them would be darkenedand the daywould not shinefor a thirdof it, and the nightin the same way.
He openedthe bottomlesspit,and smokewentup out of the pit,likethe smokeof a greatfurnace;and the sunand the airwere darkenedby the smokeof the pit.
