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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: “There will be time enough for the fellowship your heart craves:” — Joh_20:17. But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. Practical service is better than personal rapture. Mary would fain have held her...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Mary Magdalene came,.... Directly and immediately, being ready and willing to obey the commends of her Lord, with the utmost cheerfulness; and glad to go on such an errand, and carry such news to his disciples, even though her private interest and personal affection might have inclined her to desire to stay with Christ: and told the disciples that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, That was a very different message from her first one. Then she came and said, “He is gone; the tomb is empty; the stone is rolled away;” now she comes with the joyful tidings, “I have seen our risen Lord.” Joh_20:18. And that he had spoken these things unto her. Sometimes, we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. If they had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. She was a true woman — one whom they had known well enough to be quite able to trust her, and her witness ought to have been believed, but there were some that doubted.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the same day at evening,.... The same day Christ rose from the dead, and appeared to Mary; at the evening of that day, after he had been with the two disciples to Emmaus, about eight miles from Jerusalem, and they had returned again to the rest; and after there had been such a bustle all day in Jerusalem, about the body of Jesus; the soldiers...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you. How he came there we do not knew, but doors cannot shut him out. Is there any door between my soul and Christ tonight then? Have I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. He has not risen from the tomb many hours before we find him thus coming to his disciples. His love to them was too great to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he had so said,.... The above salutation, in the most kind, tender, and affectionate manner: and to put them out of all pain, and that they might know certainly who he was, he showed them his hands and his side; his hands, which had been pierced with the nails, the marks of which were then to be seen; and which they all knew must be the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. That was enough to make them glad. The gladdest sight out of heaven, and the gladdest sight in heaven itself, is to see the Lord.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. That they might be sure it was he — the same who had died by crucifixion — that they might see how intimate he was with them — familiar — that his scarcely healed wounds should be seen by them. Joh_20:20. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. Oh! for such a sight!...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. These were the marks to help their recognition of him. These were the memorials to excite their gratitude. These, too, were the tokens of his condescension; for a man does not show his wounds to any but to those whom he loves; “He showed unto them his hands and his side.” You...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said Jesus to them again,.... The words he said before: peace be unto you; which he repeated, to put them out of their fright, by reason of which they returned him no answer; and to raise and engage their attention to what he was about to say; and to pacify their consciences, distressed with a sense of their conduct towards him; and with a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. “I am the Messiah, the sent One; you, too, shall be my missionaries, my sent ones;” it is but another form of the same word.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said Jesus to them again. Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. Thus did Jesus Christ support and make for ever...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. “You are to go forth and to bless the world, even as I have done. My Father hath sent me; and ‘even so send I you.’ You are to be my delegates, to carry on my service; my commissioned officers, to go forth to conflict and to conquest in my name.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he had said this,.... That is, declared he sent them forth in like manner as his Father sent him: he breathed on them; in allusion to God's breathing the breath of life into man, at his creation; or rather, to the Spirit himself, who is the breath of God, and proceeds from him, as from the Father; and who breathes both upon persons in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. That is to say, “As you proclaim my gospel, I will back up your message; when you preach of pardoning blood, I will make it efficacious. When...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. This is as much as for Christ to say, “I will back up your ministry. When you preach that men are condemned for sin of which they have not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whose soever sins ye remit,.... God only can forgive sins, and Christ being God, has a power to do so likewise; but he never communicated any such power to his apostles; nor did they ever assume any such power to themselves, or pretend to exercise it; it is the mark of antichrist, to attempt anything of the kind; who, in so doing, usurps the...