Matthew 28:9

And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. AND AS THEY WENT TO TELL HIS DISCIPLES, BEHOLD, JESUS MET THEM, SAYING, ALL HAIL! [ Chairete (G5463)] - the usual salute, but from the lips of Jesus bearing a higher signification. AND THEY CAME AND HELD HIM BY THE FEET. How truly womanly! AND WORSHIPPED HIM....

9._And held his feet. _This appears not to agree with the words of John, (John 20:17,) where he declares that Mary was forbidden to touch Christ. But it is easy to reconcile them. The Lord, perceiving that Mary was too eager to embrace and kiss his fleet, orders her to retire; because it was proper to correct the superstition, and to point out the design of his resurrection, which Mary was withheld from perceiving, partly by an earthly and carnal affection, and partly by foolish zeal. Yet at first the Lord permitted her to touch _his feet, _that nothing might be wanting to give her a full conviction; and, therefore, Matthew immediately adds, that _they worshipped the Lord, _which was a proof that they fully recognized him....

9,10 God's gracious visits usually meet us in the way of duty; and to those who use what they have for others' benefit, more shall be given. This interview with Christ was unexpected; but Christ was nigh them, and still is nigh us in the word. The salutation speaks the good-will of Christ to man, even since he entered upon his state of exaltation. It is the will of Christ that his people should be a cheerful, joyful people, and his resurrection furnishes abundant matter for joy. Be not afraid. Christ rose from the dead, to silence his people's fears, and there is enough in that to silence them. The disciples had just before shamefully deserted him in his sufferings; but, to show that he could forgive, and to teach us to do so, he calls them brethren. Notwithstanding his majesty and purity, and our meanness and unworthiness, he still condescends to call believers his brethren....

Verse Matthew 28:9. _AND AS THEY WENT TO TELL HIS DISCIPLES_] This clause is wanting in the Codex _Vatican_, and Codex _Bezae_, and in twenty others, and in most of the _versions_. The omission is approved by _Mill, Bengel_, and _Schmid_. _Griesbach_ leaves it in the text with a note of doubtfulness. It appears to be superfluous. To connect this with the next clause, the particle και, _and_, is obliged to be suppressed in all the translations. I think the verse should begin with, _And behold he goeth_, c., and the former clause be suppressed. _Probabiliter delenda_, says Professor White, in his _Crisews Griesbachianae_, speaking of the preceding words. _JESUS MET THEM_] Christ bestows his graces and consolations by _degrees_, first by his angels, and then by himself. He does not reveal himself to

AND AS THEY WENT ... JESUS MET THEM - This was when they left the sepulchre the “second” time. Jesus first appeared to Mary Magdalene when alone, John 20:14. “Afterward” he appeared to the other women, as related by Matthew. See the accounts of the resurrection harmonized at the end of this chapter. ALL HAIL - This is a term of salutation. The word all has been supplied by the translators. It is not in the original. The meaning of the word “hail,” here, is rejoice;” a term of salutation connected with the idea of joy at his resurrection, and at meeting them again. HELD HIM BY THE FEET - Or threw themselves prostrate before him. This was the usual posture of supplication. See 2 Kings 4:37. It does

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 28:1 _Jesus rises from the dead, and appears to the holy women. _(Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1; John 20:1.) It is to be noted that there are great and important variations in the four (or, with St. Paul's, 1 Corinthians 15:1., the five) accounts of the events of the Resurrection, which have given welcome occasion to the sceptic to cast doubts upon the whole transaction. The divergences in the narratives are plainly to be ascribed to the facts that the writers did not depend upon one another, no

AND AS THEY WENT TO TELL HIS DISCIPLES,.... This clause is wanting in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions, and in Beza's most ancient copy; but it stands in the Ethiopic version, and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, BEHOLD, JESUS MET THEM: that they might be confirmed in what the angel had told them, and their fear might be removed, and their joy increased; and also be capable of reporting to the disciples not only what they had heard from the angel, but what they had seen themselves; they being now eyewitnesses, as well as earwitnesses of his resurrection: so souls in the way of their duty, as these women were, oftentimes meet with Jesus, and he with them, as they may expect, and indeed not otherwise: SAYING, ALL HAIL; all health of soul and body, all happiness and prosperity, both temporal, spiritual, and eternal, attend you. The Syriac and Persic versions, and Munster'...

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: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it._ See what concern angels have about our Lord. Are they here tonight? Do they make a habit of coming where the saints meet together? I think they do. We have intimations in Scripture that that is the case. Let us behave ourselves aright tonight «because of the angels»; and as they worship and count it their highest honour to serve the Son of man, let us also worship Jesus, and adore him. What a picture this scene would make! Matthew 28:3. His countenance was like light

JESUS The ORDER OF OUR LORD'S APPEARANCES would seem to be: ON THE DAY OF HIS RESURRECTION: (1) To Mary Magdalene (John 10:14). (2) To the women returning from the tomb with angelic message (Matthew 28:8). (3) To Peter, probably in the afternoon (Luke 24:34); (1 Corinthians 15:5). (4) To the Emmaus disciples toward evening (Luke 24:13). (5) To the apostles, except Thomas ...

MATTHEW 28:9 kai. ivdou, {A} Although it is possible that the words w`j de. evporeu,onto avpaggei/lai toi/j maqhtai/j auvtou/ kai. ivdou, fell out of the text due to homoeoteleuton, their absence from the earliest and best representatives of both early types of text (the Alexandrian and the Western) led the Committee to regard them as a natural expansion derived from the sense of the preceding verse....