OLBGrk; JOHN CHAPTER 20 1 THESSALONIANS 20:1 Mary Magdalene, seeing the stone taken away from the sepulchre, runneth to tell Peter and John, who go thither, and find not the body. 1 THESSALONIANS 20:11 Mary seeth two angels sitting in the sepulchre; Jesus himself appeareth to her. 1 THESSALONIANS 20... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SHE RUNNETH; that is, Mary Magdalene ran into the city to tell Peter; and that seemeth to be the reason why John mentions only her going to the sepulchre: but yet Luke LUKE 24:10 makes not Mary Magdalene only, but Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, the reporters of the news to the apostles;... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 3,4. Luke, LUKE 24:12, mentions Peter's going only, upon Mary Magdalene's report; but he must be expounded by this evangelist, who expressly saith, that Peter and John went together, and that John outran Peter, and got first to the sepulchre.... [ Continue Reading ]
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John stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and saw the linen clothes lying, but he would not adventure to go in.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 6,7. But Peter, who all along the Gospel appears to have been the boldest spirit, goeth into the cave, and seeth all the linen clothes lying there, and the napkin that was about his head lying by itself.... [ Continue Reading ]
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John seeing Peter adventure in, adventures also, and seeth the same things, and believeth that Christ was risen from the dead; or (as some think) that, as the women had said, somebody had taken him away.... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, they did not fully understand those scriptures of the Old Testament, PSALMS 2:2, PSALMS 16:10 110:1-7, and the types of the Old Testament, by which Christ's resurrection was foretold and prefigured.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peter and John, when they had been within the sepulchre, and seen that the body was not there, went home; believing verily that what the women at first told them was true, that somebody had removed the body out of the sepulchre; whither, they knew not.... [ Continue Reading ]
That the Mary here mentioned was Mary Magdalene appeareth from 1 THESSALONIANS 20:14, compared with MARK 16:9, which saith, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 12,13. The other evangelists differing in their accounts of this part of the history, have raised some questions here not easily to be resolved. Matthew reports thus, see MATTHEW 28:2. Mark saith, see MARK 16:2. MARK 16:2 Where by _the rising of the sun_ must not be understood its rising above... [ Continue Reading ]
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And presently Christ himself appeareth to her, though at first she did not know him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Either these words passed before the angels had told her that he was risen, MARK 16:6 LUKE 24:5,6; or (which is most probable) Mary was hard to believe what the angels had told her so lately; but coming out of the sepulchre, Christ appeareth to her, whom she knew not, but thought him to have been th... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ calleth her by name, making such a sound as he certainly knew she understood. She calleth him RABBONI, which is as much as to say: My Master.... [ Continue Reading ]
There are in this verse two no mean difficulties: the one about the sense of the prohibition, when our Saviour forbade this woman to touch him; when after his resurrection _\MATTHEW 28:9\_ he suffered the women to hold him by the feet, and himself _\1 THESSALONIANS 20:27\_ called Thomas to thrust hi... [ Continue Reading ]
This was that first appearance of our Lord after his resurrection to Mary Magdalene, after that he was risen from the dead, mentioned MARK 16:9,10, which she reported to the disciples; but Mark saith, they believed her not, 1 THESSALONIANS 20:11. Matthew tells us of another appearance of his, MATTHE... [ Continue Reading ]
Luke expounds this verse, LUKE 24:29, where the two disciples told Christ it was _towards evening, and the day_ was _far spent; _ for the Jews called the afternoon evening, as well as the time after sunset; and John tells us expressly, it was yet _the first day of the week._ This appearance is unque... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHOWED UNTO THEM HIS HANDS AND HIS SIDE; Luke adds his feet too; those parts of his body where were the most undeniable marks of the death he had suffered upon the cross. Then to disciples, who gave little credit to what Mary Magdalene, and the other woman, and the two disciples going to Emmaus,... [ Continue Reading ]
PEACE BE UNTO YOU; the repeating of this salutation speaketh it more than an ordinary compliment, or form of salutation. It signifieth his reconciliation to them, notwithstanding their error in forsaking him, and fleeing; it prepared their attention for the great things that he was now about to spea... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostles could not but be apprehensive how great a work their Lord had laid upon them, in sending them as his Father had sent him, to carry the gospel over the world; _Who_ (said Paul afterward) _is sufficient for these things?_ Our Lord therefore fortifies them with an earnest of that more plen... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether MATTHEW 18:18 be a parallel text to this, I doubt: SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 18:18". Our Lord here speaks of the sins of persons, WHOSE SOEVER SINS REMIT, & c.; he saith there, _Whatsoever ye shall bind or loose._ This text hath caused a great deal of contest. All remission of sins is either aut... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether Thomas had ever, since they all forsook our Saviour in the garden and fled, returned again to a communion with the rest, or was absent through some occasion, is not said; but upon this some have started a question, Whether Thomas, being absent, received the Holy Ghost at this time as the res... [ Continue Reading ]
It is not said what disciples, whether any of the apostles, or some others, told Thomas of this appearing of the Lord unto them. But Thomas eminently declareth his unbelief, which argues him as yet much ignorant of the Deity of Christ, and having given too little heed to what Christ had told them of... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER EIGHT DAYS signifieth here the eighth day from the resurrection, counting the day wherein Christ rose for one; as we call those third day agues which have but one day's intermission, and those quartan agues which have but two days intermission; so it is said, MARK 8:31, _after three days he sh... [ Continue Reading ]
We had need take heed what we speak wherever we are. Christ had not after his resurrection so ordinary and frequent a converse with his disciples as before. This is the fifth time that we read of Christ's appearing to them since his resurrection. He knew what words of unbelief Thomas had uttered, an... [ Continue Reading ]
MY LORD, to whom I wholly yield and give up my self; AND MY GOD, in whom I believe. It is observed, that this is the first time that in the Gospel the name of _God_ is given to Christ; he was now by his resurrection _declared to be the Son of God with power,_ REVELATION 1:4. So as Thomas did not sho... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou believest that I am risen from the dead upon the testimony of thy senses; thou doest well in that: thou hast seen, thou hast felt me; but it is a more noble faith to believe without any such sensible evidence. Faith is properly an assent given to a proposition upon the testimony of revelation,... [ Continue Reading ]
This passage plainly refers to whatsoever signs we read of in any part of St. John's Gospel; and lets us know, that the evangelist could have added abundance more to the history of the miracles which Christ wrought upon the earth.... [ Continue Reading ]
But he had wrote these to induce his readers to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God; a thing of so great concernment to them, that their eternal life depended upon it; for through his name alone eternal life is to be obtained, ACTS 4:12.... [ Continue Reading ]