15:33–41 This portion of the narrative of Jesus’ execution is full of dramatic events, including the darkness from noon till mid-afternoon (v. 33), Jesus’ cry to God (v. 34), his last cry (v. 37), the tearing of the temple curtain (v. 38), and the statement of the Roman officer (v. 39). But at least some of these events hint at the significance of Jesus’ death. For example, the darkness not only suggests in general that something momentous was happening, but it also may be an allusion to Amos 8:9 (“I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight”) and perhaps to the plague of darkness (Exod. 10:21–22) put upon the land of Egypt during the time of Moses. If this latter allusion is intended here, it (like the Amos 8:9 passage) would mean that the darkness was a sig…