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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The first day of the week,.... On the sixth day of the week, towards the close of it, Christ was interred; he lay in the grave all the seventh day, and on the first day of the week rose from the dead: so the women, after they had observed where the body was laid, went home and prepared spices and ointments, to anoint it; but the sabbath coming on,...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This evangelist, though he began not his gospel as the rest did, yet concludes it as they did, with the history of Christ' resurrection; not of the thing itself, for none of them describe how he rose, but of the proofs and evidences of it, which demonstrated that he was risen. The proofs of Christ's resurrection, which we have in this chapter, are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene ear/y, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher. Her love for her Lord made her rise early, and helped her to overcome the fear which would have prevented many from going out “when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher.” There are fears which some...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter,.... That is, after she had not only seen that the stone was took away, but had looked into the sepulchre, and saw that the body of Christ was removed; for otherwise she could not have said, that it was took away out of it: upon which she made all the haste she could to Peter; who, where he was she knew;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have laid him. This was the language of ignorance and unbelief. She had forgotten that the Lord had said that he would rise again, the third day; or else she...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Peter therefore went forth,.... Out of the house where he was, upon hearing the account Mary gave: and that other disciple; John, the Evangelist and Apostle; the rest of the disciples staying at home and continuing together, waiting to hear what account these two would bring: and came to the sepulchre; to see with their own eyes what was done, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulcher. So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. They wanted to know what had really happened, so they resolved that they would go and see. The woman’s message surprised them, and troubled them: “So they ran both...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So they ran both together,.... At first setting out, and for a while; not content to walk, they ran, being eagerly desirous to know the truth of things: and that other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre; John was a younger man than Peter, and so more nimble, and swift of foot, and got to the sepulchre before him; and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he stooping down and looking in,.... That is, John; when he came to the sepulchre, stooped down to look into it, and see what he could see; he only went into the court, or stood upon the floor, where the bearers used to set down the bier, before they put the corpse into one of the graves in the sepulchre, which were four cubits lower; [See...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; — So that he knew that they had not taken away the body of Jesus; for, if they had, they certainly would not have taken off the linen clothes. It would have been very difficult, and would have taken considerable time to unwrap the cold grave-clothes when they were bound to the body...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then cometh Simon Peter following him,.... In a very little time after him: and went into the sepulchre; itself, though not without first stooping down, as John did; see Lu 24:12. And seeth the linen clothes lie; as John did; and as by the mouth of two or three witnesses everything is confirmed, so was this; both saw the linen in which the body...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes lie, They were evidently both struck with that sight. It indicated that there had been no haste, no hurry by thieves, but deliberate action of quite another kind.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the napkin that was about his head,.... The word σουδαριον, rendered "napkin", is thought to be originally Latin, and signifies an handkerchief, with which the sweat is wiped off the face, and so it is used in Acts 19:12 but Nonnus says it is a common word with the Syrians, and the word סודרא is used in the Syriac version; and which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. As one has well said, there were the grave-clothes left as the furniture for the believer’s last bed, and there was the napkin, “in a place by itself,” to wipe away the tears of mourners. The chief lesson is that this act had been...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then went in also the other disciple,.... John, being animated by the example of Peter, went down into the sepulchre likewise; whither Peter also might beckon, or call him, to be witness with him of the order and situation in which things lay: which came first to the sepulchre; yet went last into it; so it was, that the first was last, and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulcher, and he saw, and believed. That is a great deal for John to be able to say concerning himself, for Mary had not yet believed. Possibly, Peter had scarcely believed, but John had. He felt certain that the Lord had risen. He remembered his words, and he correctly interpreted...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For as yet they knew not the Scripture,.... Meaning not some particular passage of Scripture, but the writings of the Old Testament in general, and the various places in it, which spoke of the resurrection of Christ, either in a way of type, or prophecy; such as Genesis 22:3 and though our Lord had often referred to some of them, at least as in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. They did not understand it; even John himself did not until then. The rest of the disciples had never put that interpretation upon our Lord’s words which was the clear and simple meaning of them, namely, that he would rise from the dead. I should not wonder if there are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the disciples,.... Peter and John, after they had seen and examined things, and satisfied themselves as much as they could: went away again unto their own home; or "to themselves", as in the original text, and so the Vulgate Latin reads it; not that the meaning is, that they had been out of their minds, and proper exercise of them, and now...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. Having ascertained that the body of Jesus was not there, and John having come to the conclusion that the Lord had indeed risen from the dead, he and Peter went away home prayerfully to wait and see what next would happen.