_Mary Magdalene, &c., had bought sweet spices_ These Galilean women, who had waited on Jesus in his last moments, and attended his body to the sepulchre, observing that his funeral rites were performed in haste, (the body being rolled in nothing but a mixture of myrrh and aloes, brought by Nicodemus... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they said, Who shall roll us away the stone_ This seems to have been the only difficulty they apprehended. So they knew nothing of Pilate's having sealed the stone, and placed a guard of soldiers there. _And when they looked_ Αναβλεψασαι, _and having lifted up their eyes; they saw_ Namely, befo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Go your way, tell his disciples_, &c. The kindness of this message will appear above all praise, if we call to mind the late behaviour of the persons to whom it was sent. They had every one of them forsaken Jesus in his greatest extremity; but he graciously forgave them, and, to assure them of thei... [ Continue Reading ]
_When Jesus was risen early, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene_ “There is something very remarkable in this passage of the history. None of the apostles, or male disciples, were honoured with the first visions of the angels, or with the immediate news of Christ's resurrection, far less with the fi... [ Continue Reading ]
_He appeared in another form unto two of them_, &c. Of which, see notes on Luke 24:13. _And they went and told it unto the residue_ Namely, the same evening. _Neither believed they them_ That is, some of them did not believe, though others of them did, who, though they had given little credit to the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat_ Namely, on the evening of the day on which he rose. Concerning this appearance of Christ, see notes on Luke 24:36, where it is related at large. _And upbraided them with their unbelief_ &c. “That after so many assurances from his own mouth... [ Continue Reading ]
_Go ye into all the world_ To all countries under heaven; _and preach the gospel to every creature_ That is, to all mankind, to every human being, whether Jew or Gentile, for our Lord speaks without any limitation or restriction whatever. On this Bengelius remarks, “If all men, of all places and age... [ Continue Reading ]
_And these signs shall follow them that believe_ Bengelius subjoins, “That believe with that very faith mentioned in the preceding verse.” (Though it is certain a man may work miracles and not have saving faith, Matthew 7:22.) “It was not one faith by which Paul was saved; another, by which he wroug... [ Continue Reading ]