Lukas 23:44

44 It was already the sixth hour [noon] and choshech was over the whole land until the ninth hour. [Amos 8:9]

Lukas 23:44 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:44

And it was about the sixth hour
Or twelve o'clock at noon; and so the Ethiopic version, when it was noon; (See Gill on Matthew 27:45).

Lukas 23:44 In-Context

42 And he was saying, Yehoshua, remember me when you come into your Malchut.

43 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Omein, I say to you, hayom (today) with me you will be in Gan Eden.

44 It was already the sixth hour [noon] and choshech was over the whole land until the ninth hour. [Amos 8:9]

45 The shemesh being obscured; and the Parochet [between the Kodesh HaKodashim and HaKodesh] in the Beis Hamikdash was torn in two. [Ex 26:31-33]

46 And having cried out with a kol gadol, he said, Abba, BYADCHA AFKID RUCHI (into your hands I commit my ruach TEHILLIM 31:6[5]). And this having said, he breathed out his last.