Matthew 27:56

Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children. AMONG WHICH WAS MARY MAGDALENE (SEE THE NOTE AT ), AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND JOSES - the wife of Cleophas, or rather Clopas, and sister of the Virgin (). See the notes at . AND THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN - that is, Salome: compare . All this about the women is mentioned for the sake of what is afterward to be related of their purchasing spices to anoint their Lord's body....

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 hereafter. When we duly consider Christ's death, our hard and rocky hearts should be rent; the heart, and not the garments. That heart is harder than a rock that will not yield, that will not melt, where Jesus Christ is plainly set forth crucified. The graves were opened, and many bodies of saints which slept, arose. To whom they appeared, in what manner, and how they disappeared, we are not told; and we must not desire to be wise above what is written. The dreadful appearances of God in his providence, sometimes work strangely for the conviction and awakening of sinners. This was expressed in the terror that fell upon the centurion and the Roman soldiers. We may reflect with comfort on the abunda...

Verse 56. _MARY MAGDALENE_] She probably had her name from _Magdala_, a village or district in Lower Galilee. See Matthew 15:39. Some think she was called Magdalene from מגדלא _magdala_, which signifies a _plaiter of hair_. See Lightfoot. _MARY THE MOTHER OF JAMES_] She was mother of him called _James_ _the lesser_, or junior, who was son of Alpheus or Cleopas - see Matthew 10:3; Mark 15:40; John 19:25; and she was sister to the holy virgin. Thus it appears that there were four remarkable _Marys_ mentioned in the Gospels. 1. MARY the _Virgin_, wife of JOSEPH....

MARY MAGDALENE - Mary of Magdala. She had a special cause of attachment to the Saviour, having been relieved by him of a most dreadful calamity and restored to her right mind, after being possessed by seven devils. See the notes at Luke 8:2. AND THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE’S CHILDREN - That is, of James and John, Matthew 10:2. Her name was Salome, Mark 15:40....

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 22:66; Luke 23:1; John 18:28.) MATTHEW 27:1 WHEN THE MORNING WAS COME. This is the early morning of Good Friday, the 14th of Nisan. If the rulers had had special regard to legality, they could not have co

AMONG WHICH WAS MARY MAGDALENE,.... Out of whom Christ had cast out seven devils; and who having received much from him, loved much, which she showed by her zealous and constant attachment to him. She was called Magdalene, either because she was an inhabitant of Magdala, Matthew 15:39, so we read e of R. Isaac, מגדלאה, of "Magdala", or "Magdalene"; and the rather, because that Magdala was famous, or rather infamous, for whoredom; for which reason the Jews f say, it was destroyed: or else she was so called, because she was גדלת, a "tonstrix", or plaiter of women's hair, as the word signifies g; and so we often read of Mary, מגדלא שיער נשייא, "the plaiter of women's hair" h; by whom the Jews seem to design Mary, the mother of Jesus, whom they confound with this Mary Magdalene. Jerom says i, her name signifies "towered", or "fortified", because of her care and diligence, and the ardour of 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 conquering warrior. And what a word it was, «It is finished»! Thousands of sermons have been preached upon that little sentence, but who can tell all the meaning that lies compacted, length, and height altogether unmeasurable. Christ's life being finished, perfected, completed; he yielded up the ghost, willingly dying, laying down his life as he said he would: «I lay down my life for the sheep... I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.» Matthew 27:51. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and th

JAMES Son of Alphaeus. (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:21). _...

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.(Matthew 27:15 .) 5. Crowned with Thorns and Crucified.(Matthew 27:27 .) 6. The Death of the King. (Matthew 27:45 .) 7. The Rent Veil and the Earthquake.(Matthew 27:51 .) 8. The Burial. ...

THE DEATH OF JESUS (Mark 15:33 *, Luke 23:44). Matthew 27:48 f. is to be preferred to Mark 15:36. vv. Matthew 27:51 is found only in Mt., and may have as its basis Ezekiel 37:12. AFTER HIS RESURRECTION: a still later insertion to fit the statement that Christ was the first fruits of them that sleep. We can hardly suppose that the original account of the miracle represented them as staying alive in their tombs from Friday afternoon till Sunday morn