Mark 15 · Verse 33

Mark 15:33

And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mark 15:33, King James Version

Mark 15:33 in other translations

BSBFrom the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
WEBWhen the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
ASVAnd when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
YLTAnd the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour,
DARBYAnd when the sixth hour was come, there came darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour;
BBEAnd when the sixth hour had come, it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.
WebsterAnd when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land, until the ninth hour.

What does Mark 15:33 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 33.

(l) "And when" Mt 27:45, Lk 23:44

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 15:33-41
There was a thick darkness over the land, from noon until three in the afternoon. The Jews were doing their utmost to extinguish the Sun of Righteousness. The darkness signified the cloud which the human soul of Christ was under, when he was making it an offering for sin. He did not complain that his disciples forsook him, but that his Father forsook him. In this especially he was made sin for us. When Paul was to be offered as a sacrifice for the service saints, he could joy and rejoice, Php 2:17; but it is another thing to be offered as a sacrifice for the sin of sinners. At the same instant that Jesus died, the veil of the temple was rent from the top to the bottom. This spake terror to the unbelieving Jews, and was a sign of the destruction of their church and nation. It speaks comfort to all believing Christians, for it signified the laying open a new and living way into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. The confidence with which Christ had openly addressed God as his Father, and committed his soul into his hands, seems greatly to have affected the centurion. Right views of Christ crucified will reconcile the believer to the thought of death; he longs to behold, love, and praise, as he ought, that Saviour who was wounded and pierced to save him from the wrath to come.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Mark 15:33 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

γενομένηςgenomenēswhen was arrivingG1096
ὥραςhōras[the] hourG5610
ἕκτηςhektēssixthG1623
σκότοςskotosdarknessG4655
ἐγένετοegenetocameG1096
ἐφ᾽eph᾽overG1909
ὅληνholēnallG3650
τὴνtēntheG3588
γῆνgēnlandG1093
ἕωςhe'ōsuntilG2193
ὥραςhōras[the] hourG5610
ἐνάτης.enatēsninth.G1766

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Mark 15:33

  • Matthew 27:45

    Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

  • Luke 23:44-45

    And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

  • Amos 8:9-10

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • Mark 15:25

    And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

  • Isaiah 50:3-4

    I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

  • Psalms 105:28

    He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
when.
25; Mt 27:45; Lu 23:44,45
darkness.
Ps 105:28; Isa 50:3,4; Am 8:9,10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Mark 15:32

    Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.

  • Mark 15:33

    And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

  • Mark 15:34

    And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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Mark 15:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y cuando vino la hora de sexta, fueron hechas tinieblas sobre toda la tierra hasta la hora de nona.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et quand la sixième heure fut venue, il y eut des ténèbres sur tout le pays jusqu’à la neuvième heure.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Als es aber die sechste Stunde war, kam eine Finsternis über das ganze Land bis zur neunten Stunde;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et facta hora sexta, tenebræ factæ sunt per totam terram usque in horam nonam.