Mark 16:5

And entering into the sepulchre This emboldened them all to enter into the tomb, except Mary of Magdala, who, seeing in the rolling away of the stone the confirmation of her worst fears, fled away to the Apostles Peter and John; and there they saw

a young man or as some of them may have specified, two(Luke 24:4), sitting on the right hand. (Comp. Luke 1:11.)

clothed in a long white garment white or "glistering" (Luke 24:4); "hilid with a whit stoole," Wyclif. Note the word "hilid" here, from "hélan" to "cover," whence our word "hell" = "the covered place."

and they were affrighted On the force of the Greek word thus rendered, see above, ch. Mark 9:15. The sight of the heavenly visitants (Luke 24:4) filled them with the utmost terror and amazement, "olei weren abaist," Wyclif.