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John 20:19-23
Two Appearances to the Assembled Disciples.
On the evening of Easter Day:
Two Appearances to the Assembled Disciples.
On the evening of Easter Day:
JOHN 20:19 maqhtai, {A} Before dia, the Textus Receptus, following a2 Q L D Y 33 _al,_ adds the very natural supplement, sunhgme,noi, perhaps in re...
Verse John 20:19. _THE DOORS WERE SHUT - FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS_] We do not find that the Jews designed to molest the disciples: that word of authority which Christ spoke, John 18:8, _Let these go away...
THE SAME DAY AT EVENING - On the first day of the week, the day of the resurrection of Christ. WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT - This does not mean that the doors were fastened, though that might have been t...
CHAPTER 20 _ 1. The Empty Sepulchre. (John 20:1 .)_ 2. The Risen One and Mary of Magdala. (John 20:11 .) 3. The Gathered Company and He in the midst. (John 20:19 .) 4. The Second Time. ...
THE COMING TO THE DISCIPLES. The first Christian Sunday is spent in Jerusalem, where the disciples are in hiding. The interpretation of Mark 14:50 as implying an immediate flight of the apostles to Ga...
Late on that day, the first day of the week, when for fear of the Jews the doors had been locked in the place where the disciples were, Jesus came and stood in the midst of them, and said: "Peace be t...
BEWILDERED LOVE (John 20:1-10)...
WHERE. Probably the upper room. See Mark 14:15.Luke 22:12.Acts 1:13. ASSEMBLED. All the texts omit. FOR. on account of. Greek. _dia._ App-104.
The Manifestation to the Ten and others 19. _Then the same day_, &c. Rather, WHEN THEREFORE IT WAS EVENING ON THAT DAY, THE FIRST day of the week. Note the great precision of the expression. -That da...
19. Before ΣΑΒΒΆΤΩΝ omit τῶν (from John 20:1), and before ΔΙΆ omit συνηγμένοι (explanatory gloss). 19. ΟΥ̓́ΣΗΣ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ὈΨ. Note the great precision of the expression. WHEN THEREFORE IT WAS EVENING ON TH...
THE MANIFESTATION TO THE TEN AND OTHERS...
Ver 19. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for feel of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and says to...
_JESUS APPEARED TO HIS DISCIPLES BUT THOMAS IS ABSENT -- JOHN 20:19-23:_ The disciples gathered on the first day of the week. Fear of the Jewish leaders caused them to meet behind closed doors. Luke t...
ΟΎΣΗΣ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Gen. abs._, "когда был вечер" ΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΜΈΝΩΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΚΛΑΊΩ (G2808) запирать. _Gen. abs._, "при закрытых или запертых дверях". _Pe...
THEN THE SAME DAY—WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT, &C.— "After this, in the evening of the very same day on which he arose and appeared to Mary Magdalene, that is to say the first day of the week; when the d...
THE APPEARANCE TO TEN DISCIPLES _Text: John 20:19-25_ 19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of th...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 20:11-23 Below is an Analysis of our present passage:— Our Lord had triumphed o’er the grave, "as he said." Before the sun of this world had risen upon the thir...
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them...
6 There is a blessed contrast between the resurrection of Lazarus and the vivification of our Lord. Lazarus saw corruption. Christ saw none. Lazarus was raised bound foot and hand with grave clothes a...
THE RESURRECTION 1-10. The Resurrection. Visits of Mary Magdalene, and of Peter and John to the tomb of Jesus. (For the Resurrection appearances see on the synoptics, especially on St. Matthew; for th...
THE DOORS WERE SHUT] A clear indication that our Lord's body had become a spiritual body, and was no longer subject to the ordinary laws of matter, or the conditions of space: cp. John 20:26 Luke 24:3...
JESUS APPEARS IN THE EVENING TO THE DISCIPLES: see Luke 24:36; (Mark 16:14). According to St. Mark, Jesus appeared 'to the eleven as they sat at meat.' St. John is more precise, noting the absence of...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 20 THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! 20:1-10 V1 On Sunday morning, Mary (who was from Magdala) went to the grave. It was very early a...
For this appearance to the disciples (John 20:19) comp. Mark 16:14 and Luke 24:36. Between the last verse and this we must suppose to occur the bribing of the guard ...
XXIII. _ THOMAS' TEST._ "When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the...
The time of the manifestation is defined, it was τῇ ἡμέρᾳ … σαββάτων “on that day, the first of the week,” and during the evening, οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας, which agrees with Luke's account, from which we lear...
_Manifestations of the risen Lord to the disciples, first without Thomas, then with Thomas_....
THE RISEN CHRIST BRINGS PEACE John 20:19-25 Evidently our Lord was clothed in the spiritual body of which the Apostle speaks, not subject to the laws governing physical life. Twice He uttered the sal...
This is the story of a dark morning and a lost Master. The strange excitement of it all is evidenced by the fact that the three disciples named are all seen running. Mary ran to tell the disciples, an...
(5) Then the same day at evening, being the first [day] of the week, when the (f) doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith...
And the doors were [1] shut, or being shut; and remaining still shut, his glorified body entered by penetration through the doors, as he did at his resurrection. Maldonatus take notice, that Calvin wa...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE APOSTLES SUNDAY NIGHT Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-23. “ _Then_, _it being evening on that day_, _the first day of the week_, _and the doors being shut where the disciples were assem...
“ _The evening having come, therefore, on this same first day of the week, the doors of the place where the disciples were being shut because of the fear which they had of the Jews, Jesus came and sto...
II. THE FIRST APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES: JOHN 20:19-23. The risen Lord advances by degrees in His manifestation of Himself. The appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene, prepared for by that of the ang...
1. The appearance of Jesus when the doors were shut (John 20:19; John 20:26) is a point which we are unable to explain. The evangelist has not stated the facts of the case with sufficient definiteness...
FIFTH PART: 20:1-29. THE RESURRECTION. The fourth part of the Gospel has shown us the Jewish people carrying _unbelief_ with reference to Jesus even to complete apostasy, and consummating this spirit...
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. (19) Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors...
In John 20:1-31 is the resurrection, and this in a remarkable light. No such outward circumstance is here as in Matthew, no soldiers trembling, no walk with disciples, but as ever the person of God's...
_THE LORD’S DAY_ ‘The same day at evening, being the first day of the week … came Jesus and stood in the midst.’ John 20:19 ‘Very early in the morning, the first day of the week,’ the Lord Jesus by...
_THE MESSAGE OF PEACE_ ‘Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the mi...
19._When, therefore, it was evening. _The Evangelist now relates that the resurrection of Christ was proved to the disciples by his presence. It did not happen without the providence of God, that all...
In chapter 20, we have, in a summary of several of the leading facts among those which took place after the resurrection of Jesus, a picture of all the consequences of that great event, in immediate c...
THEN THE SAME DAY AT EVENING,.... The same day Christ rose from the dead, and appeared to Mary; at the evening of that day, after he had been with the two disciples to Emmaus, about eight miles from J...
Then the same day at evening, being the first _day_ of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto the...
_Then the same day at evening_ The day on which he arose from the dead; _being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut_ And fastened on the inside; _where the disciples were assembled for...
THE SAME DAY AT EVENING; the first day of the week, which was from that time, and has ever since been observed as the Lord's day, the Christian Sabbath. Verse John 20:26; ACTS 20:7; 1 CORINTHIANS 16:2...
THE GRAVE: OPEN AND EMPTY! (vs.1-10) Though others besides Mary of Magdala went together to the grave early on the first day of the week, yet in John she is singled out, a woman devoted, but incredu...
19-25 This was the first day of the week, and this day is afterwards often mentioned by the sacred writers; for it was evidently set apart as the Christian sabbath, in remembrance of Christ's resurre...
Luke expounds this verse, LUKE 24:29, where the two disciples told Christ it was _towards evening, and the day_ was _far spent; _ for the Jews called the afternoon evening, as well as the time after s...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II Let contentiousness in words, for the sake of a useless triumph, be banished; for our aim is to be free from perturbation. Such is the meaning of the phra...
John 20:19 Then G3767 same G1565 day G2250 evening G3798 being G5607 (G5752) first G3391 week G4521 when...
‘When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were for fear of the Judaisers, Jesus came and stood among them and says to them...
JESUS APPEARS TO ALL THE APOSTLES APART FROM THOMAS (JOHN 20:19)....
John 20:19. WHEN THEREFORE IT WAS EVENING ON THAT DAY, THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, AND WHEN THE DOORS HAD BEEN SHUT WHERE THE DISCIPLES WERE FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS, CAME JESUS AND STOOD IN THE MIDST; AND...
Mary Magdalene has carried to the disciples the tidings with which she was charged. We have now the first appearance to them of the Risen Lord....
WHEN THEREFORE IT WAS EVENING ON THAT DAY (ουσης ουν οψιας τη ημερα εκεινε). Genitive absolute with οψια (οψιος, late), old word with ωρα (hour) understood and here for the time from six to nine (Jo...
John 20:19 _(with Mark 16:13; Luke 24:33)_ I. We should misinterpret the incidents of this evening meeting, we should mistake the simple, immediate and precise object which, in using them, our Lord h...
John 20:19 I. Such as was the state of the disciples on that sad evening, such must often be our state, at least in many respects. We too have all of us often forsaken our Lord and Master. We too have...
John 20:19 The words "Peace be unto you" were the ordinary Jewish form of greeting, at least in later ages. The form marked the grave, religious character of the Hebrew race. Just as the Greek, in his...
John 20:15 Next to the absence of all notice of our Lord's mother, few things are more remarkable in the narrative of the period after the resurrection, than the silence respecting John. I. John was...
John 20:11. _But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the othe...
John 20:19. _Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and sai...
John 20:18. _Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her._ She was a true woman one whom they had known well enough to be quite...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. CHARACTERS: Mary Magdalene, Peter, John, two angels, Jesus, disciples, Thomas. CONCLUSION: He who gave His life as a ransom resumed His life again by the mighty pow...
John 20:2. _They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre._ After Mr. WEST had examined with all possible care every circumstance recorded of the resurrection, he in substance remarks, that John...
IT WAS LATE THAT SUNDAY EVENING. [Whether John used Jewish time or Roman time would identify the exact hour of the day. If Jewish time it is before six o'clock, and just getting dusk.] This is the thi...
_Then the same day at evening_ THE FIRST LORD’S DAY EVENING I. THE ANXIOUS COMPANY. The twelve, with the exception of Judas and Thomas, were gathered and kept together by a community of interest in...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:1 Chapter John 20:1 covers the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial: the empty tomb, the risen Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene, and Jesus’ appearances to his disciples...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:19 Some interpreters understand THE DOORS BEING LOCKED to imply that Jesus miraculously passed through the door or the walls of the room. Since Jesus clearly had a real physical b...
"JESUS APPEARS TO THE DISCIPLES BEHIND LOCKED DOORS LUKE 24:36-43; JOHN 20:19-23; LUKE 24:36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [_be_] unto yo...
_Then the same day at evening, on the first day of the week._ Or the feast of the Pasch. (See notes on Matthew 28:1.) _When the doors were shut._ Calvin says that Christ opened the doors, or entered t...
28-31 CHAPTER 20 VER. 1. _On the first day of the week._ Literally, of the Sabbath, the week being called the Sabbath, after its principal day, or the day of the Pasch. (see on Mat 28:1) _Mary Magda...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 20:19. EVENING OF THAT DAY.—_I.e._ the day on which our Lord rose from the dead.—WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT.—St. John notices this fact, not only to show how terror...
EXPOSITION JOHN 20:1 2. The complete glorification of Jesus in his resurrection. The record pauses for the awful day of that great sabbath, and resumes the marvelous recital when the greatest event i...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to John, chapter 20. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and she saw the stone was...
1 Corinthians 15:5; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Ephesians 2:14; Ephesians 6:23;...
Assembled. Omit....
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST John 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The linen clothes. Before we discuss the resurrection with you, we want you to consider with us the manner in which Christ was wrapped arou...
Mark 16:14; Luke 24:36....
How could Jesus walk through a closed door with a physical body? PROBLEM: It is inferred by some critics that, since the resurrected Christ could appear in a room with closed doors (John 20:19), this...