And when the sixth hour was come, there was (6) darkness over the (c) whole land until the ninth hour.
(6) How angry God was against our sins, which he punished in his son who is our sure substitute, is made evident by this horrible darkness.
(c) By this word "land" he means Palestine: so that the strangeness of the wonder is all the more set forth in that at the feast of the passover, and in the full moon, when the sun shone over all the rest of the world, and at midday, this corner of the world in which so wicked an act was committed was covered over with great darkness.