The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.
In these verses we have three things: - I. Christ's dying magnified by the prodigies that attended it: only two are here mentioned, which we had an account of before. 1. The darkening of the sun at noon-day. It was now about the sixth hour, that is, according to our computation, twelve o'clock at noon; and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Commenting on Luke 23:44-49
The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them,.... Though he was with the Jews, the chief priests, Scribes, and elders, in the high priest's palace, being one of that great council; yet he did not agree with them; nor was it his advice and counsel, that they should put Christ to death; he was against it, at least did not consent...
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. (14) Christ enters bravely and resolutely into the very darkness of death, and he does this so that he might overcome death even within its most secret places.