Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Matthew 28:4
The keepers did shake. — The words imply that the two Maries when they reached the sepulchre saw the soldiers prostrate in their panic terror.
The keepers did shake. — The words imply that the two Maries when they reached the sepulchre saw the soldiers prostrate in their panic terror.
Verse Matthew 28:4. _THE KEEPERS - BECAME AS DEAD_ MEN.] God can, by one and the same means, _comfort_ his _servants_, and _terrify_ his _enemies._ The resurrection of Christ is a subject of _terror_...
THE KEEPERS DID SHAKE - It was night. The appearance was sudden and unexpected, and to them terrific. The stone was probably suddenly removed. At the noise, the light, the suddenness of the appearance...
14. HIS RESURRECTION AND THE GREAT COMMISSION. CHAPTER 28 _ 1. His Resurrection. (Matthew 28:1 .) 2. The Lying Report of the Jews.(Matthew 28:11 .) 3. The Great Commission. (Matthew 28:16 .)_ We ha
THE EMPTY TOMB (Mark 16:1 *, Luke 24:1). Mt. is here not so close to Mk., except in Matthew 28:5. The note of time in Matthew 28:1 is not clear; the Sab ba
Late on the Sabbath, when the first day of the week was beginning to dawn, Mary from Magdala and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And, look you, there was a great earthquake; for the angel of the...
THE GREAT DISCOVERY (Matthew 28:1-10)...
FOR. from. Greek. _apo._ DEAD MEN. See App-139....
Matthew 28:1-8. The Resurrection Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18 The discrepancies are slight, and may be accounted for by
Matthew 28:1-8. THE RESURRECTION Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18 The discrepancies are slight, and may be accounted for by th
ἈΠῸ ΦΌΒΟΥ … ὩΣ ΝΕΚΡΟΊ. Cp. οἱ δὲ σύμμαχοι τεθνᾶσι τῷ δέει τοὺς τοιούτους�, Dem. _Phil._ I. 45....
Ver 1. In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for t...
_THE RISEN LORD MATTHEW 28:1-8:_ Near dawn on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene and the other Mary became the first to know that Jesus had been resurrected. When they came to the tomb the seal...
ΦΌΒΟΣ (G5401) страх, ΑΥΤΟΎ (G846) его (obj. _gen._), ΈΣΕΊΣΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΣΕΊΩ (G4579) дрожать (“быть парализованным от страха”). Это выражение означает, что лица были бледны как воск, и...
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,—...
SECTION 76 JESUS AROSE! (Parallels: Mark 16:1-11; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18) TEXT: 28:1-10 1 Now late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the first _day_ of the week, came Mary Magdalene...
And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. AND FOR FEAR OF HIM THE KEEPERS DID SHAKE, AND BECAME AS DEAD MEN. Is the sepulchre "sure" now, O ye chief priests? He that sitte...
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...
THE RESURRECTION For the Resurrection see special article. 1-10. THE RESURRECTION AND APPEARANCE TO THE WOMEN (Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1; John 20:1). If it be remembered that a considerable number of women...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 28 JESUS BECOMES ALIVE AGAIN 28:1-10 V1 The holy day had finished. Now it was dawn on the first day of the week. So Mary Magdalene a...
CHAPTER 20 The Third Day- Matthew 27:57 - Matthew 28:1 Now that the atoning work of Christ is finished, the story proceeds with rapidity to its close. It was the work of the Evangelist to give the h...
ὡς νεκροί : the keepers, through fear of the angel, were shaken as by an earthquake, and became as _dead men_ stupefied, helpless, totally incapacitated for action by way of preventing what is assumed...
_The open grave_ (Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-11)....
THE OPEN AND EMPTY TOMB Matthew 28:1-10 Ere the sun had risen and while the glory of the dawn was faint in the Eastern sky, the women were well on their way. But He whom they sought had gone. How oft...
“He is not here, He is risen!" That, surely, is the sweetest music. How beautifully it crowns the King. His enemies have rejected Him, and have proved their malice by handing Him over to their common,...
_The guards were struck, &c. Fear and astonishment seized upon them, because they had not that charity for our Redeemer, of which he is so deserving; and they became petrified, like statues, at the th...
CHAPTER 29 THE RESURRECTION Mark 16:1. “ _And the Sabbath passing away_, _Mary Magdalene_, _and Mary the mother of James_, _and Salome_, _purchased aromatics_, _in order that_, _having come_, _they m...
"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. (2) And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the an...
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...
4._Through fear the guards trembled. _The Lord struck _the guards _with _terror, _as if he had engraved their consciences with a hot iron, so as to constrain them reluctantly to feel his divine power....
I shall examine the details of the resurrection elsewhere Here I only consider its bearing in this Gospel. The sabbath ended (Saturday evening with us chapter 28), the two Marys come to see the sepulc...
AND FOR FEAR OF HIM THE KEEPERS DID SHAKE,.... Though they were soldiers, Roman soldiers and veterans, who had been used to terrible sights in the field of battle; were men of courage, and fearless of...
And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead _men_. Ver. 4. _The keepers did shake_] And well they might, as coming to see they had borne arms against God, and were therefore obnoxio...
_His countenance was like lightning_ Coruscations of light darting from his face; _and his raiment white as snow_ Glittering with an extraordinary lustre, beyond what any human eyes could bear; _and f...
No soldiers are so intrepid, but that a single angel can cause them to quake with fear, and become as dead men. He can even strike dead a hundred and eighty-five thousand in a night. Isaiah 37:36....
AND FOR FEAR OF HIM THE KEEPERS DID SHAKE, AND BECAME AS DEAD MEN. As the death of Christ had been attended by supernatural signs to call the attention of the whole world to the redemption then being...
The message of the angel:...
The Sabbath coming to an end, the two Mary's arrive at the grave early in the morning. Some have thought that Mary Magdalene came twice, though this does not seem clear, except that she evidently retu...
1-8 Christ rose the third day after his death; that was the time he had often spoken of. On the first day of the first week God commanded the light to shine out of darkness. On this day did He who is...
OLBGrk; Ver. 2-4. Matthew alone telleth us this; all the other evangelists agree that when the women came they found the stone rolled away, which eased them of the solicitude they had as they came, sa...
Matthew 28:4 And G1161 guards G5083 (G5723) shook G4579 (G5681) for G575 fear G5401 him G846 and...
‘His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow, and for fear of him the watchers quaked, and became as dead men.' The appearance of the angel was as lightning in its splendour, and hi...
THE WOMEN DISCIPLES COME TO THE TOMB AND FIND IT EMPTY APART FROM AN ANGEL. THEY LEARN THAT JESUS HAS RISEN (28:1-6). Late on the same day as the Chief Priests sealed the tomb, two of the women discip...
Matthew 28:4. FOR FEAR OF HIM _,i.e.,_ of the angel. As the angel was there when the women came, and the guard did not go back to the city until after the women departed (Matthew 28:11), it seems most...
GENERAL REMARKS. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is distinctly asserted, by four evangelists whose testimony nowhere shows greater independence of each other; in the Acts of the Apostles; it is preac...
THE WATCHERS DID QUAKE (εσεισθησαν ο τηρουντες). And no wonder that they became as dead men and fled before the women came....
Matthew 28:1. _In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. And, behold, there was a great earthquake:...
Matthew 28:1. _In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher._ While the Jewish Sabbath lasted, they pai...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Jesus. Jesus in Galilee and the great commission. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, 2 Marys, disciples. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ is declared to be the Son of God with pow...
The history and evidences of our Saviour's resurrection, being of infinite importance, are reserved to the last chapter of St. John. Matthew 28:1. _In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn towar...
THE GUARDS WERE SO AFRAID. These are hard-boiled Roman soldiers....
_And behold, there was a great earthquake._ THE EARTHQUAKE TRUMPET An earthquake was a royal trumpet to proclaim this victory, the greatest that ever was obtained against an enemy. The deep murmur a...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 28:3 FEAR OF HIM. The guards are probably battle-hardened soldiers, but they have never witnessed anything like this. ⇐
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 28:1 The Resurrection and Commission of the Messiah. Matthew’s concluding chapter recounts Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. His resurrection confirms his identity and shows t...
Jesus rises from the dead Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-11; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18;...
CHAPTER 28 _In the evening of the Sabbath_ (Vulg.), _as the first day of the week was dawning_, &c. How could it be called evening if day was dawning, or even if, as S. Mark says, the sun were risen?...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 28:1. IN THE END OF THE SABBATH.—_Late on the Sabbath day_ (R.V.).—We must assume, with Meyer, Lange, and Alford, that Matthew here follows the natural division of the day fro...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 28:1 _Jesus rises from the dead, and appears to the holy women. _(Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1; John 20
In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of t...
Acts 16:29; Acts 9:3; Daniel 10:7; Job 4:14; Matthew 27:65;...
THE SEVEN MIRACULOUS EVENTS Matthew 28:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The events centered around the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ were miraculous to say the least. One miracle generally c...