From noon until three in the afternoon darkness covered the land (27:45). Then Jesus cried out loudly in despair: My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? (27:46), thus quoting and fulfilling
27:45–46. Jesus endured this suffering and abuse for three hours, from 9 A.M. until noon. Then, at noon an even worse torture fell upon Jesus. The Father turned his back on his own Son. The perfect communion of eternity past (cf.
