When jesus died did darkness come over the whole land?

Answer 1

A:No one can say how far the darkness covered. Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem yet the scribes in Jerusalem, who we know recorded every unusual natural phenomenon, never mentioned a darkness that covered the land. It is as if it never really happened.

Answer 2

A:This three-hour period of darkness, beginning exactly at midday, was meant to reflect the betrayal of Jesus at precisely midnight and also to be a segment in the regular pattern that the author of Mark's Gospel originally developed, when he divided the last twenty-four hours in the life of Jesus into eight segments of just three hours each. The passion narrative was later copied by the authors of the other gospels, but the careful use of periods is less evident. The meaning can be seen in the following summary:

1. The first event is 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. 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. That makes it 6 am.

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.

   Jesus was crucified with two thieves, but there is no record of any communication between Jesus and them.

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, Jesus cried out and gave up the ghost.
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.

A:There were a host of real and also symbolic events surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. God may have meant the darkness to be creation's symbolic mourning for Jesus while He was suffering the pains of the lost on our behalf. Likewise, the earthquake, the splitting of the rocks, and the opening of the tombs were God's salute to the conquering Savior. The tearing of the curtain in the temple was God's own proclamation that in the death of Christ the barrier between God and man disappeared. The risen saints were God's evidence and guarantee that the power of death had been broken.

Answer 3

Three to six hours and it was not a Solar eclipse because an eclipse cannot occur on a full moon only on a new moon

Answer 4

Three Hours. "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." Matthew 27:45. This was from 12 noon to 3 PM, in our understanding.

Answer 5

there were three hours of darkness

Answer 6

Yes