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Mark 15:33

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And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
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  1. Matthew 27:45Rank 1 from verse 33
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    45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

  2. Amos 8:9–10Rank 2 from verse 33
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    9And 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:

    10And 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.

  3. Luke 23:44–45Rank 3 from verse 33
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    44And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

    45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

  4. Mark 15:25Rank 4 from verse 33
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    25And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

  5. Isaiah 50:3–4Rank 5 from verse 33
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    3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

    4The 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.

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Mark 15:33

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darkness

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Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.

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land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

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

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15:34And 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?

15:35And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

15:36And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

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