Luke 23:45

45 and the sonne was darckened. And the vayle of the temple dyd rent even thorow the myddes.

Luke 23:45 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:45

And the sun was darkened
There was an eclipse of it, which was preternatural, it being now full moon, and lasted three hours, and so total, as to darken the whole earth; and now was the prophecy in ( Amos 8:9 ) literally fulfilled: and the vail of the temple was rent in the midst. The Persic version renders it, "the gate of the temple"; and so the Syriac version, "the face of the gate of the temple"; (See Gill on Matthew 27:51).

Luke 23:45 In-Context

43 And Iesus sayde vnto him: Verely I saye vnto the to daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse.

44 And it was about the sixt houre. And ther came a darcknes over all the londe vntyll ye nynth houre

45 and the sonne was darckened. And the vayle of the temple dyd rent even thorow the myddes.

46 And Iesus cryed with a greate voyce and sayd: Father into thy hondes I comende my sprete. And when he thus had sayd he gave vp the goost.

47 When ye Centurion sawe what had happened he glorified God sayinge: Of a surtie this man was perfecte.