Mark 15:33
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- AD 30-33?
WHEN
AD 30-33?
counted from the text
WHO RULED
- Tiberius emperor of Rome AD 14-37
- Pontius Pilate prefect of Judea AD 26-36
- Herod Antipas tetrarch of Galilee 4 BC – AD 39
- Philip tetrarch of Ituraea 4 BC – AD 34
- Caiaphas high priest AD 18-36
MEANWHILE
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AD 33 Italy
Credit crisis in Rome
Tiberius injects a hundred million sesterces to stop the banks from collapsing.
SOURCES
- date — The same reconstruction of the Passion: AD 30 or 33, within Pilate's prefecture.
- Tiberius — Tacitus, Annals I-VI; Suetonius, Tiberius
- Pontius Pilate — Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.3-4; Tacitus, Annals XV.44; the Caesarea inscription, which carries his name and office in stone
- Herod Antipas — Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8-XVIII.7
- Philip — Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8, XVIII.4
- Caiaphas — Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.2.2 and XVIII.4.3; the ossuary of "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," found in Jerusalem in 1990
- Credit crisis in Rome — Tacitus, Annals VI.16-17
SEE ALSO
- Matthew 27:45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
- Amos 8:9-10 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime. …
- Luke 23:44-45 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. …
- Mark 15:25 It was the third hour when they crucified Him.
- Isaiah 50:3-4 I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.” …
- Psalms 105:28 He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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