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Commentaries on Mark 16:5

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And entering into the sepulchre,.... For the sepulchres of the Jews were made so large, that persons might go into them: the rule for making them is this (k); "he that sells ground to his neighbour to make a burying place, or that receives of his neighbour to make a burying place, must make the inside of the cave four cubits by six, and open in it eight graves; three here, and three there, and...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter, we have a short account of the resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus: and the joys and triumphs which it furnished all believers with, will be very acceptable to those who sympathised and suffered with Christ in the foregoing chapters. Here is, I. Christ's resurrection notified by an angel to the women that came to the sepulchre to anoint him, ver. 1-8. II. His appearance...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. An angel had been allowed to assume the appearance of a man; that usually seems to be the way in which angels appear to men. I suppose there is, after all, a great kinship between angels and men; otherwise, angelic beings would not so constantly assume that...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: They were afraid of an angel. “Conscience doth make cowards of us all,” and even good men and good women are apt to be afraid of anything celestial and bright. The angel said to the women, “Be not affrighted:” —

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And entering into the sepulcher, they saw a young man silting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. An angel had assumed the appearance of a young man sitting inside the sepulcher.