Matthew 28:8. And they departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy;
That seems a strange mixture: "fear and great joy." Yet there was plenty of reason for both emotions. Who would not fear that had felt an earthquake, and seen an angel, and marked the tomb broken open? Yet who would not rejoice that had had such a cheering message, and such an assurance that the crucified Christ had risen from the dead? Experience is the best explanation of experience; you must feel for yourself these two emotions working together before you can understand how they can live in anyone at the same time: "They departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy."
Matthew 28:8. And did run to bring his disciples word.
Good women! "They did run." These staid matrons did run, and who would not run to tell of a risen Lord?
Matthew 28:8. And they departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy;
That seems a strange mixture: "fear and great joy." Yet there was plenty of reason for both emotions. Who would not fear that had felt an earthquake, and seen an angel, and marked the tomb broken open? Yet who would not rejoice that had had such a cheering message, and such an assurance that the crucified Christ had risen from the dead? Experience is the best explanation of experience; you must feel for yourself these two emotions working together before you can understand how they can live in anyone at the same time: "They departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy."
Matthew 28:8. And did run to bring his disciples word.
Good women! "They did run." These staid matrons did run, and who would not run to tell of a risen Lord?