From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.
“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth its covering.”
When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.
The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon.