Jesus Before Caiaphas

The Jews regarded their day as beginning at one sunset and ending with the next. This interval was not divided into twenty-four parts or hours of equal and invariable lengths. They took each day by itself, from sunrise to sunset, and each night by itself, from sunset to sunrise, and divided each into twelve equal parts or hours; so that a Jewish hour, instead of being, at it is with us, a fixed measure of time, varied in its length as each successive day and night varied in theirs at different...