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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. These Roman soldiers had never witnessed such scenes in connection with an execution before, and they could only come to one conclusion about the illustrious prisoner...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. These Roman soldiers had never witnessed such scenes in connection with an execution before, and they could only come to one conclusion about the illustrious prisoner...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the Mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children. We have no record of any unkindness to our Lord from any woman, though we have many narratives of the loving ministry of women at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. This rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, a member of the Jewish Sanhedrim, was Jesus’ disciple, “but secretly for fear of the Jews”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed. Our King, even in the grave, must have the best of the best; his body was “wrapped in a clean linen cloth, and laid in Joseph’s own new...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulcher. Love and faith were both typified by these two Mary’s sitting over against the sepulcher. They will be the last to leave their Lord’s resting-place, and the first to return to it when the Sabbath is past. Can we cling to Christ when his cause seems to be dead and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the Sepulcher be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. So they went, and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. The chief priests and Pharisees wanted Pilate to make the sepulcher sure, but he left them to secure it. There seems to have been a grim sort of irony about the governor’s reply, “Ye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. While the Jewish Sabbath lasted, they paid to it due respect. They did not even go the sepulcher to perform the kindly offices of embalmment; but when the old Sabbath was dying away, and the new and better...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And, behold, there was a great earthquake:— The women must have wondered as they felt that tremor beneath their. feet. If you have ever felt an earthquake, you will never forget it; and this was a great one, not one of an ordinary kind: “a great earthquake.” Death was being upheaved, and all the bars of the sepulcher were beginning to burst. When...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow; and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. He said nothing as he rolled back the stone; he did not shake a sword at them, or over them, to fill them with terror. The presence of perfect purity, the presence of heavenly things, is a terror to ungodly men. May...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: Dazzling in its purity, like the raiment worn by Christ upon the Mount of Transfiguration, whiter than any fuller can make it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. First a palsy of fear, and then a stiffening of fright, fell upon them, for they had never seen such a sight as this before. They were Roman soldiers, who knew nothing of the meaning of cowardice; yet at the sight of this messenger of God, “the keepers did shake, and became as dead...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: But I notice that they did fear, although the angel said, “Fear not.” Neither men nor angels can so speak as to silence fears in trembling hearts; but Jesus can, as we shall see farther on. One word from his lips has infinitely more power than all the words of angels or of saints....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the angel answered and said unto the women,— We had almost forgotten them; we had been thinking of the earthquake, and the angel, and the flaming lightning, and the frightened soldiers; but this angel’s thought is all about the women. He whose countenance was like lightning, and whose garments were white as snow, said to the women,—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; Notice the angel’s words; first “See,” and then “Go.” You cannot tell the message till you know it. You who would serve God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is not here: for be is risen, as he said. “As he said.” A few words, but what a world of meaning! “As he said.” He always does “as he said.” He always gives “as he said.” He always reveals himself “as he said” not otherwise. He never fails to fulfill a promise, or forgets even the mode of promising; not only does he do what be said, but as he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; Such good news ought to be spread quickly. “Go and tell his disciples,” they are trembling, they have fled, — “that he is risen from the dead.” Mat_28:7. And, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. Brethren, this is good news for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. That is a very beautiful touch of condescension on the Saviour’s part,—that he would go before his disciples into Galilee. Why, Galilee was the very opposite of a classic region; it was a district that was much despised. The clod-hoppers, the boors, the...