Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Matthew 27:55
beholding. Greek. theoreo. App-133.
afar off. from (Greek. apo. App-104.) afar.
which. who : i.e. such as.
Galilee. App-169.
beholding. Greek. theoreo. App-133.
afar off. from (Greek. apo. App-104.) afar.
which. who : i.e. such as.
Galilee. App-169.
Verse 55. _MANY WOMEN_] To their everlasting honour, these women evidenced more _courage_, and _affectionate attachment_ to their Lord and Master, than the disciples did, who had promised to _die_ wit...
BEHOLDING AFAR OFF - These women were probably not suffered to come near the cross because it was surrounded by soldiers. They witnessed with intense feelings his sufferings from some convenient place...
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....
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
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...
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...
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...
ΜΑΚΡΌΘΕΝ (G3113) издали, ΘΕΩΡΟΎΣΑΝ _praes. act. part. пот. fem. pl._ от ΘΕΩΡΈΩ (G2334) наблюдать (в качестве зрителя, AS), ΉΚΟΛΟΎΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ (G190) следовать, ΔΙΑΚΟΝΟΎΣΑΝ _p...
THE WITNESS TEXT: 27:54-56 54 Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this was t...
And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: AND MANY WOMEN WERE THERE BEHOLDING AFAR OFF, WHICH FOLLOWED JESUS, [ eekoloutheesan (G190)]....
54-61 Compare Mar_15:39-47; Luk_23:47-56 Joh_19:38-42. 54 The kingdom proclamation closed with the acknowledgment of Peter that He is the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mat_16:16). His priestly m...
27:55 who (a-11) _ Hostis_ . 'who were such as;' the character as well as the persons. ministering (b-17) As chs. 4.11; 25.44....
MINISTERING] It was the custom of Jewish women to contribute to the support of famous rabbis: see on Luke 8:1....
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
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...
MANY WOMEN WERE THERE BEHOLDING. — The group was obviously distinct from that of “the daughters of Jerusalem,” of Luke 23:28, but was probably identical with that mentioned in Luke 8:2, as accompanyin...
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)....
γυναῖκες, _women_, bolder than men, love casting out fear. Lk. associates with them others called οἱ γνωστοὶ αὐτῷ, His acquaintance, which might include the disciples. Though they fled panic-stricken...
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...
Ministering unto him. It was customary with the Jews, for the women of that country to minister unto their teachers both food and raiment; but because this was liable to abuse, and to cause scandal to...
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...
55._And there were also many women there. _I consider this to have been added in order to inform us that, while the disciples had fled and were scattered in every direction, still some of their compan...
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 MANY WOMEN WERE THERE,.... At the cross of Christ, at some little distance from it; but where was Peter, who had declared he would never be offended, though all men were; and would die with Christ...
And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Ver. 55. _And many women were there_] More hardy than the disciples, who all, save John, were fl...
_And many women were there, beholding afar off_ Viewing these things with weeping eyes and sympathizing hearts: _which followed Jesus from Galilee_ To Jerusalem, eighty or a hundred miles, out of the...
AND MANY WOMEN WERE THERE BEHOLDING AFAR OFF, WHICH FOLLOWED JESUS FROM GALILEE, MINISTERING UNTO HIM;...
The effect of Christ's death on the bystanders:...
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 27:55"....
Tertullian On Monogamy , like the other apostles and Cephas? "But when he subjoins those (expressions)which show his abstinence from (insisting on) the supply of maintenance, saying, "For have we not...
Matthew 27:55 And G1161 many G4183 women G1135 who G3748 followed G190 (G5656) Jesus G2424 from G575 Galilee...
THE BODY OF JESUS IS RESCUED FROM IGNOMINY AND BURIED IN A RICH MAN' TOMB (27:55-61). Matthew now brings out that God had made His own funeral arrangements for His Son, as He had revealed beforehand....
‘And many women were there beholding from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,' Among those who had been observers of the crucifixion were ‘many women' from Galilee, who had...
Matthew 27:55. MANY WOMEN. Luke (Luke 23:49) speaks of ‘all His acquaintance' before these women. John was certainly present, probably some of the other disciples. BEHOLDING FROM AFAR. At one time 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...
MANY WOMEN (γυναικες πολλα). We have come to expect the women from Galilee to be faithful, last at the Cross and first at the tomb. Luke (Luke 23:49) says that "all his acquaintance" (παντες ο γνωστ...
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...
THERE WERE MANY WOMEN THERE. These devoted women were still faithful, when the disciples had fled [They may have felt less threatened by the Jewish leaders, because they were women.] Of the apostles,...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:55 These WOMEN accompanied Jesus as his disciples (see Mark 15:41;...
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...
John 19:25; Luke 23:27; Luke 23:28; Luke 23:48; Luke 23:49;...
Which had followed [α ι τ ι ν ε ς]. Denoting a class : who were of the body of women that had followed him....