Time Measures

4^th Watch, or morning Watch. 3-6 A.M.

Matthew 14:25

During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.

Exodus 14:24

During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.

Middle watch. 12 Midnight to 3 A.M.

Judges 7:19

Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.

Night, sunset to sunrise.

Genesis 1:5

God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

9^th hour. 3 P.M.

Matthew 20:5

So they went. “He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.

2^nd watch. 9-12 P.M.

Luke 12:38

It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night.

7^th hour. 1 P.M.

John 4:52

When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”