John 20:1
Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter went out — Of the city.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter seeth the linen clothes lie — and the napkin folded up — The angels who ministered to him when he rose, undoubtedly folded up the napkin and linen clothes.... [ Continue Reading ]
He saw — That the body was not there, and believed — That they had taken it away as Mary said.... [ Continue Reading ]
For as yet — They had no thought of his rising again.... [ Continue Reading ]
They went home — Not seeing what they could do farther.... [ Continue Reading ]
But Mary stood — With more constancy. Mark 16:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus saith to her, Mary — With his usual voice and accent.... [ Continue Reading ]
Touch me not — Or rather, Do not cling to me (for she held him by the feet,) Matthew 28:9. Detain me not now. You will have other opportunities of conversing with me. For I am not ascended to my Father — I have not yet left the world. But go immediately to my brethren — Thus does he intimate in the... [ Continue Reading ]
Mark 16:14; Luke 24:36.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peace be unto you — This is the foundation of the mission of a true Gospel minister, peace in his own soul, 2 Corinthians 4:1. As the Father hath sent me, so send I you — Christ was the apostle of the Father, Hebrews 3:1. Peter and the rest, the apostles of Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
He breathed on them — New life and vigour, and saith, as ye receive this breath out of my mouth, so receive ye the Spirit out of my fulness: the Holy Ghost influencing you in a peculiar manner, to fit you for your great embassy. This was an earnest of pentecost.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whose soever sins ye remit — (According to the tenor of the Gospel, that is, supposing them to repent and believe) they are remitted, and whose soever sins ye retain (supposing them to remain impenitent) they are retained. So far is plain. But here arises a difficulty. Are not the sins of one who tr... [ Continue Reading ]
After eight days — On the next Sunday.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Thomas said, My Lord and my God — The disciples had said, We have seen the Lord. Thomas now not only acknowledges him to be the Lord, as he had done before, and to be risen, as his fellow disciples had affirmed, but also confesses his Godhead, and that more explicitly than any other had yet done... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus wrought many miracles, which are not written in this book — Of St. John, nor indeed of the other evangelists.... [ Continue Reading ]
But these things are written that ye may believe — That ye may be confirmed in believing. Faith cometh sometimes by reading; though ordinarily by hearing.... [ Continue Reading ]