Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Matthew 27:52
Verse 52. And the graves were opened] By the earthquake; and many bodies of saints which slept, i.e. were dead, sleep being a common expression for death in the Scriptures.
Verse 52. And the graves were opened] By the earthquake; and many bodies of saints which slept, i.e. were dead, sleep being a common expression for death in the Scriptures.
AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED - “Graves” or sepulchres were most commonly made, among the Jews, in solid rocks or in caves of rocks. The rending of the rocks, therefore, would lay them open. The graves w...
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...
GRAVES. tombs. AROSE. were waked. All the texts read "were raised". Is this the resurrection referred to in Romans 1:3. See notes there. Greek. _egersis =_ awaking rousing up, or arising. Occurs only...
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...
ΤΩ͂Ν ΚΕΚΟΙΜΗΜΈΝΩΝ ἉΓΊΩΝ. κοιμᾶσθαι twice in this gospel, here figuratively of death; ch. Matthew 28:13, of literal sleep. The figure is quite classical, as ὡς ὁ μὲν αὖθι πεσὼν κοιμήσατο χάλκεον ὕπνον,...
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...
ΜΝΗΜΕΊΑ _pl. от_ ΜΝΗΜΕΊΟΝ (G3419) гробница. ΆΝΕΩΧΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΑΝΟΊΓΩ (G455) открывать, ΚΕΚΟΙΜΗΜΈΝΩΝ _perf. pass._part, от ΚΟΙΜΆΩ (G2837) спать, засыпать, ΉΓΈΡΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от...
AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED, &C.— The ancient sepulchres were hewn out of rocks, which being rent by the earthquake, discovered the cells wherein the bodies of the dead were deposited; but though these...
MIRACLES ACCOMPANYING THE DEATH OF CHRIST TEXT: 27:51-53 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent; 52 and th...
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED; AND MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS WHICH SLEPT AROSE,...
29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3. 30 See Isa_50:6. 31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10. 31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
THE GRAVES WERE OPENED] i.e. by the shock of the earthquake. AND MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS, etc.] i.e. they rose, not immediately, but with Christ at His Resurrection. This incident seems to be a pic...
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 BODIES OF THE SAINTS WHICH SLEPT AROSE. — It is scarcely, perhaps, surprising that a narrative so exceptional in its marvellousness, and standing, as it does, without any collateral testimony in...
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)....
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...
And the (r) graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, (r) That is to say, the stones broke apart, and the graves opened themselves to show by this act that death was overco...
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...
52_And graves were opened. _This was also a striking miracle, by which God declared that his Son entered into the prison of death, not to continue to be shut up there, but to bring out all who were he...
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 THE GRAVES WERE OPENED,.... Which were near the city of Jerusalem: this was a proof of Christ's power over death and the grave, by dying; when he through death, destroyed him that had the power of...
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, Ver. 52. _And the graves were opened_] To show that death was now swallowed up in victory by life essential; like as the f...
_And the graves were opened_ Some of the tombs were shattered and laid open by the earthquake, and doubtless continued open all the sabbath, since the law would not allow of any attempt to close them...
WHICH SLEPT; who were dead. AROSE; not now, but, as is added in the next verse, after his resurrection. These were the earnest of the general resurrection at the last day. The whole transaction was d...
AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED; AND MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS WHICH SLEPT AROSE,...
The death of Jesus:...
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 27:53"....
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians and therefore endure, that we may be found the disciples of Jesus Christ, our only Master-how shall we be able to live apart from Him, whose disciples the prophe...
Matthew 27:52 and G2532 graves G3419 opened G455 (G5681) and G2532 many G4183 bodies G4983 saints G40 who...
‘And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared to ma...
DIVINE VINDICATION. JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD (27:45-54). By now Jesus had been on the cross about three hours, and around noon an extraordinary event took place. For over the whole land there came gros...
THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54). In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as ‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
Matthew 27:52-53. THE TOMBS WERE OPENED. The Jewish tombs, unlike our own, were natural or artificial excavations in rocks, the entrance being closed by a door or a large stone. These, the stone doors...
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...
THE TOMBS WERE OPENED (τα μνημεια ανεωιχθησαν). First aorist passive indicative (double augment). The splitting of the rocks by the earthquake and the opening of tombs can be due to the earthquake....
GRAVES That these bodies returned to their graves is not said and may not be inferred. The wave-sheaf (Leviticus 23:10) typifies the resurrection of Christ, but a sheaf implies plurality. It was a si...
Matthew 27:51 The Language of the Signs. I. The earthquake. This was (1) a sign wrought by the direct and unusual interposition of the Creator. (2) It was a sign to alarm men, on account of the capit...
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...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
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...
THE GRAVES BROKE OPEN. This too is symbolic. WERE RAISED TO LIFE. But not until Jesus himself was raised to life. This is implied in Colossians 1:18....
_Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the Ghost._ SEVEN WONDERS There were seven wonders which made the death of Christ exceedingly remarkable. I. Over His head was written a...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:52 SAINTS WHO HAD FALLEN ASLEEP. This shows that the resurrection of people who died looking forward to the Messiah depended on Christ’s actual death and resurrection, as do...
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...
1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Thessalonians 4:14;...
Some of the tombs were shattered and laid open by the earthquake, and while they continued unclosed (and they must have stood open all the Sabbath, seeing the law would not allow any attempt to close...