How long did Jesus hang on the cross before He died?

Answer 1

According to The Bible he died at the ninth hour.

In the synoptic gospels he was hung on the cross on the third hour, so Jesus was alive on the cross for 6 hours before He died.

In John's Gospel he was not sent for crucifixion until the sixth hour, so he was on the cross for less than three hours.

Another Answer

Mark records the crucifixion began in the Jewish 3rd hour or 9:00 AM Roman time:

Mark 15:25-34 New King James Version (NKJV)

25 Now it was the third hour, and they crucified Him...

Jesus Dies on the Cross

33 Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"[a]

35 Some of those who stood by, when they heard that,said, "Look, He is calling for Elijah!" 36 Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink, saying, "Let Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to take Him down."

37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.

Jesus is on the cross from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Roman time or today's modern time (6 hours). Supernatural 'darkness' begins at noon and ends at 3:00 PM (3 hours).

Answer 2

A:The time intervals up to the death of Jesus are explained very concisely in Mark's Gospel, which breaks down the last twenty four hour into eight intervals of just three hours each.

1. We start with the celebration of the Passover Feast, which becomes the Last Supper. It began "when it was evening" (Mark 14:17), or when the sun went down: approximately 6 pm. Mark knew that the duration of the Passover meal was three hours and that it concluded with the singing of a hymn, so the first thing Jesus did was to sing a hymn with his disciples. Then Mark says, "And when they had sung a hymn they went out to the Mount of Olives". It was about 9 p.m.
2. Mark then has Jesus and the disciples go to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus went to pray. He suffered alone and in agony, asking God that, if possible, he take this cup (his destiny to be crucified) away from Jesus. Meanwhile his disciples, Peter, James and John, were not able to remain awake. "Could you not watch one hour?" Jesus asked. The process was repeated two more times. The disciples could not watch one, two or three hours. It was now midnight.
3. The betrayal of Jesus, the darkest deed in human history, came next, occurring at the stroke of midnight.
4. At 3:00 a.m., Jesus was led away for a trial before the high priest and other senior priests and elders. It was on the basis of his messianic claim that he was judged to be worthy of death.

   Peter's threefold denial of Jesus, once each hour until the cock crowed, marked the end of that phase of the night, the watch between 3 am and 6 am being known as cockcrow. It was 6 o'clock.

5. "As soon as it was morning", which would be 6 am, Jesus was led by the chief priests, scribes and elders to Pontius Pilate for judgement.
6. "It was the third hour when they crucified him," that is, 9 o'clock.
7. When "the sixth hour had come" (12 noon), darkness covered the whole earth, reflecting the betrayal at 12 midnight. After three hours of darkness, at 3 p.m., Jesus cried out and gave up the ghost. He has suffered alone and in agony, just as in the Garden of Gethsemene, and his last words reflect anguish at the failure of his prayer in the Garden, when he asked if it were possible that this fate be taken from him: "My God. My God. Why hast thou forsaken me?".
8. Joseph of Arimathea then asked Pilate for the body of Jesus, so that he could be buried before the Sabbath began. Jesus was buried in the final period from 3 to 6 pm, before the sun went down.

In this account, and in the synoptic gospels that generally followed Mark, Jesus was placed on the cross at 9 o'clock and died just twelve hours later, an unusually short time for this form of torture and execution. It was 21 hours since the Last Supper began, and there were three more hours to the end of Good Friday by the Jewish calendar.

The account in John's Gospel has very different timings. First of all, Christ's crucifixion takes place on the day before the Passover celebration. There is no trial before the Sanhedrin, with Jesus simply taken separately to the homes of Annas and then Caiaphas. The trial before Pontius Pilate takes place later in the day, and Jesus is not sent for crucifixion until the sixth hour -12 noon. In this account, he died after less than three hours and did not need the soldiers to break his legs to hasten death before the start of the Sabbath.

Answer 3

I don’t know