Question 228: At what hour did the crucifixion take place?

Answer:

Mark says (15:25) it was about the third hour or, as we should say, nine o'clock. Again, the sixth hour is referred to by three of the evangelists (Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44), when Yeshua had apparently been three hours on the cross. In the next verses in all three cases, the ninth hour is mentioned as the time of death, which would be three o'clock. The statement of John (19:14) is believed to be due to a copyist's error or to his using the Roman method of reckoning.