EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED THE CRUCIFIXION. (1) THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE RENT; (2) THE EARTHQUAKE; (3) THE SAINTS ARISE; (4) THE CENTURION AT THE CROSS; (5) THE WATCHING OF THE WOMEN
Of these, (2) and (3) are peculiar to St Matthew
Mark 15:38-41; Luke 23:45; Luke 23:47-49, where the grief of the spectators is an additional fact. St John omits these incidents, but records the breaking of the malefactors’ legs and the piercing of Jesus’ side.
Verse 51. _THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT_] That is, the veil which separated the _holy place_, where the priests ministered, from the _holy_ of _holies_, into which the high priest only entered, an...
THE VAIL OF THE TEMPLE - This was doubtless the veil, curiously performed, which separated the holy from the most holy place, dividing the temple into two apartments, Exodus 26:31. IN TWAIN - In two p...
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
THE DEATH OF JESUS (Mark 15:33 *, Luke 23:44). Matthew 27:48 f. is to be preferred to Mark 15:36. vv....
And, look you, the veil of the Temple was rent in two from top to bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split, and the tombs were opened, and the bodies of many of God's dedicated ones...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. THE VEIL. Greek. _katapetasma_. that which is spread out downward, or that which hangs down. Septuagint for Hebrew. _masak,_ (Exodus 26:37; Exodus 35:12;...
_the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom_ St Luke has "rent in the midst." The veil meant is that which separated the holy of holies from the holy place. The rending of the...
Events that followed the Crucifixion. (1) The Veil of the Temple rent; (2) the Earthquake; (3) the Saints arise; (4) the Centurion at the Cross; (5) the Watching of the Women Of these, (2) and (3) ar...
Ver 51. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints whi...
_JESUS' DEATH AND BURIAL MATTHEW 27:32-66:_ The power of the cross makes salvation possible. The sign over His head read, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." He is far more though, "Now to the King...
ΚΑΤΑΠΈΤΑΣΜΑ (G2665) занавес, завеса. О завесах в храме _см._ LT, 2:61 If; SB, 1:1043-46; Gundry; Jos., JW, 5:211-19; M, Shek. 8:4-5; M, Yoma 5:1. ΈΣΧΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΣΧΊΖΩ (G4977) треснуть, р...
DISCOURSE: 1412 SIGNS ATTENDANT ON OUR LORD’S DEATH Matthew 27:51. _And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent_. THE...
THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT, &C.— While Jesus breathed his last, the veil of the temple was miraculously rent from top to bottom; most probably in the presence of the priest who burned the incense...
MIRACLES ACCOMPANYING THE DEATH OF CHRIST TEXT: 27:51-53 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent; 52 and th...
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; AND, BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN TWAIN FROM THE TOP TO...
29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3. 30 See Isa_50:6. 31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10. 31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE] Two veils, a cubit apart, hung before the Holy of Holies. They are said to have been 40 cubits (60 ft.) long, 20 wide, and of the thickness of the palm of the hand. Both were r...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN TWAIN. — Better, _the veil of the sanctuary,_ or, if we do not alter the word, we must remember that it is the veil that divided the Holy Place from the Holy of Holi...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
_Death and its accompaniments_ (Mark 15:37-41; Luke 23:46-49)....
καὶ ἰδοὺ, introducing solemnly a series of preternatural accompaniments, all but the first peculiar to Mt. τὸ καταπέτασμα, the veil between the holy place and the most holy. ἐσχίσθη : this fact, the r...
THE BROKEN HEART AND THE RENT VEIL Matthew 27:45-56 With hushed hearts we stand in the presence of “that sight.” It is the tragedy of time; the one supreme act of self-surrender; the unique unapproac...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
(14) And, behold, the (q) veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; (14) Christ, when he is dead, shows himself to be God Almighty,...
The veil of the temple was rent. As there were in the temple two parts of the sanctuary, so there were two veils, or partition walls. The first sanctuary, called the holy, was separated by a veil from...
CHAPTER 28 CONCURRENT MIRACLES Luke 23:45-49; Mark 15:38-41; Matthew 27:51-56. Our Lord has already expired on the cross, and now we proceed to consider the concurrent miracles so overwhelmingly atte
"Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. (51) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks r...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
51._And, lo, the veil of the temple was rent. _When Luke blends _the rending of the veil _with the eclipse of the sun, he inverts the order; for the Evangelists, as we have frequently seen, are not ca...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
AND BEHOLD, THE VAIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN TWAIN,.... Just at the time that Christ spake with so loud a voice, and expired, and which was at the time of the offering up of the evening incense; and...
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; Ver. 51. _The veil of the temple was rent_] To show that there was an en...
Mat. 27:51. "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom." This was the veil that hindered our access to the throne of grace, or the mercy-seat in the holy of holi...
_And behold_ Immediately upon his death, while the sun was still darkened; _the veil of the temple_ The inner veil which divided the _holy_ from the _most holy place;_ though made of the richest and s...
VEIL OF THE TEMPLE; which separated the most holy place from the other parts of the temple. By this was signified that now the way into God's presence was opened by the blood of Christ. Hebrews 9:7-8;...
AND, BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN TWAIN FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM; AND THE EARTH DID QUAKE, AND THE ROCKS RENT;...
The death of Jesus:...
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
51-56 The rending of the veil signified that Christ, by his death, opened a way to God. We have an open way through Christ to the throne of grace, or mercy-seat now, and to the throne of glory hereaf...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:53"....
A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord Revive.[21] Origen Against Celsus Book II nclusion what was designed against him? "Now to this question, although we are able to show the striking and miraculous...
Matthew 27:51 Then G2532 behold G2400 (G5628) veil G2665 temple G3485 torn G4977 (G5681) in G1519 two...
THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54). In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as ‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
DIVINE VINDICATION. JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD (27:45-54). By now Jesus had been on the cross about three hours, and around noon an extraordinary event took place. For over the whole land there came gros...
‘And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.' His death was followed by amazing activity, although whether it all followed immediately we do not know. The first acti...
Matthew 27:51. THE VAIL OF THE TEMPLE, etc. The vail before the Holy of Holies, separating it from the Holy Place. This may have been a result of the convulsion mentioned in the next clause, but the a...
This section describes the _central fact of the world's history_. The accounts of the four Evangelists agree perfectly as to the main points; but each mentions circumstances omitted by the others. Mat...
WAS RENT (εσχισθη). Both Mark (Mark 15:38) and Luke (Luke 23:45) mention also this fact. Matthew connects it with the earthquake, "the earth did quake" (η γη εσεισθη). Josephus (_War_ VI. 299) tells...
VEIL The veil which was rent was the veil which divided the holy place into which the priests entered from the holy of holies into which only the high priest might enter on the day of atonement, (_...
Matthew 27:26 _(with Mark 15:15)_ Christ on the Cross. Christ on the Cross is our subject. You know His history, And when you read, "The people stood beholding" you will be ready to add, "And no won...
Matthew 27:51 The rending of the veil proclaims (1) that man, as man, has access to the heavenly temple; (2) that the powers of the world to come have entered into and possessed man and his world; (3...
Matthew 27:51 The Language of the Signs. I. The earthquake. This was (1) a sign wrought by the direct and unusual interposition of the Creator. (2) It was a sign to alarm men, on account of the capit...
Matthew 27:50. _Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost._ Christ's strength was not exhausted; his last word was uttered with a loud voice, like the shout of a conqueri...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
Matthew 27:50. _Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost._ Christ's strength was not exhausted; his last word was uttered with a loud voice, like the shout of a conqueri...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
THE CURTAIN. WAS TORN IN TWO. This was the heavy curtain which divided the "Holy of Holies" from the "Holy Place" (see plan of Herod's Temple). "From top to bottom" shows this to be an act of God, and...
_Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the Ghost._ SEVEN WONDERS There were seven wonders which made the death of Christ exceedingly remarkable. I. Over His head was written a...
_And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain._ THE RENT VEIL I. The event as literally recorded. II. The event in its spiritual significancy. What did the veil represent? The human nature...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:51 The CURTAIN between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place was an elaborately woven fabric 60 feet (18 m) high and 30 feet (9 m) wide. No one was allowed to enter the Mos...
Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:45. FROM THE SIXTH HOUR.—The first three Gospels agree as to time and fact. Assuming them to follow the usual Jewish reckoning (as in Acts 2:15; Acts 3:1;...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
2 Chronicles 3:14; Ephesians 2:13; Exodus 26:31; Exodus 40:21;...
The veil of the temple. According to the Rabbis this was a handbreadth in thickness, and woven of seventy - two twisted plaits, each plait consisting of twenty - four threads. It was sixty feet long a...
Immediately upon his death, while the sun was still darkened, the veil of the temple, which separated the holy of holies from the court of the priests, though made of the richest and strongest tapestr...
Here we have an account of several extraordinary and wonderful things which occurred and fell out about the time that our Saviour died. Observe, 1. THE VAIL OF THE TEMPLE RENT ASUNDER, that is, the h...