there was darknesse] How angry God was against our sins, which he punished in our surety his Son, it appeareth by this horrible darknesse. Or, with their sins that crucified him. over the whole land] By this word, land, he meaneth Judea: so that the strangenesse of the wonder is so much the more set forth in this, That at the feast of the passeover, and in the full moon, when the sun shined over all the rest of the world, and at midday, that corner of the world, wherein so wicked an act was committed, was covered over with most grosse darknesse. Or, some understand it of the whole hemisphere.