_CHRIST'S RESURRECTION IS DECLARED BY AN ANGEL TO THE WOMEN: HE HIMSELF APPEARETH UNTO THEM. THE CHIEF PRIESTS GIVE THE SOLDIERS MONEY TO SAY THAT HE WAS STOLEN OUT OF HIS SEPULCHRE. CHRIST APPEARETH TO HIS DISCIPLES, AND SENDETH THEM TO BAPTIZE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS._ _Anno Domini 33._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE END OF THE SABBATH, &C.— Some writers close the last chapter thus, _Sealing the stone, and setting a watch late on the sabbath;_ and begin the present, _and when it began to dawn,_ &c. as the Jewish day began at sun-setting, the Jews distinguished the evening into two parts, which they called... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE— While the women were going to the sepulchre, there was a great earthquake, namely, that which preceded the most memorable event that ever happened among men,—the resurrection of the Son of God from the dead. This earthquake probably frightened the women to s... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED— This paragraph is not so connected with the preceding, as if nothing had intervened; since it will be found, upon a closer examination of it, and comparing it with its parallel, Mark 16:2 that between the soldiers becoming like dead men, and the angel's speaking to the women,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY DEPARTED QUICKLY, &C.— _And they instantly left the sepulchre:_—Version of 1729. _And they hastily went out of the sepulchre._ Heylin. This verse contains a beautiful description of the mingled passions.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY WENT—JESUS MET THEM— In the _general scheme of the resurrection_ which I propose giving at the end of St. John's Gospel, when we have had the whole narrative before us, the precise time and circumstances of this meeting of our Lord's with the women will be shewn.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THEY WERE GOING, &C.— The chief priests, having received the report of the guard, called the whole senate together, and consulted among themselves what they were to do. The deliberations, however, of the meeting were not kept secret. They were reported to the disciples, perhaps by Joseph an... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE ELEVEN DISCIPLES WENT AWAY, &C.— The time now approached when Jesus was to shew himself publicly in Galilee, after having frequently shewn himself in a more private manner to his disciples and the women. This was in many respects the most remarkable of all his appearances. He promised it to... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME, &C.— Our Saviour here declares all power and authority to be given to him as Mediator at his resurrection: in consequence of which power, he commissions his disciples to convert, baptize, and instruct the world. There is no doubt but this _power_ is part of the exaltation... [ Continue Reading ]
GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, &C.— _And disciple all nations._ This commission of our Lord marks out the difference between the Mosaic and the Christian dispensation: the one was confined to the Jews; the other was extended to all the sons and daughters of Adam. The whole tenor of the succ... [ Continue Reading ]
TEACHING THEM, &C.— Christ commands that nothing should be taught which he himself had not taught: whence it is evident thatevery thing fundamental may be found in the Gospel; and that even the apostles themselves could not teach any thing as necessary to salvation, which Christ himself had not asse... [ Continue Reading ]