Gospel of Nicodemus II The Descent of Christ into Hell
Joseph says: And why do you wonder that Jesus has risen? But it is wonderful that He has not risen alone, but that He has also raised many others of the dead who have appeared in Jerusalem to many.[1]
Verse 53. _AND CAME OUT OF THE GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION_] Not BEFORE, as some have thought, for Christ was himself the FIRST FRUITS of them who slept, 1 Corinthians 15:20. The _graves_ were opene...
AND CAME OUT OF THE GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION - The narrative of Matthew does not determine whether they came to life before Jesus rose, and remained in the tombs, or came to life after he died. T...
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
THE DEATH OF JESUS (Mark 15:33 *, Luke 23:44). Matthew 27:48 f. is to be preferred to Mark 15:36. vv....
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
And, look you, the veil of the Temple was rent in two from top to bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split, and the tombs were opened, and the bodies of many of God's dedicated ones...
OUT OF. Greek. _ek._ AFTER. Gr _. meta._ App-104. RESURRECTION. arising He rose: they were raised. THE HOLY CITY. See note on Matthew 4:5. APPEARED: privately. Greek. _emphanizo._ See App-106....
Events that followed the Crucifixion. (1) The Veil of the Temple rent; (2) the Earthquake; (3) the Saints arise; (4) the Centurion at the Cross; (5) the Watching of the Women Of these, (2) and (3) ar...
ἘΚ ΤΩ͂Ν ΜΝΗΜΕΊΩΝ. There were doubtless other tombs besides Joseph’s near Golgotha. ἜΓΕΡΣΙΝ, late in this sense....
EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED THE CRUCIFIXION. (1) THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE RENT; (2) THE EARTHQUAKE; (3) THE SAINTS ARISE; (4) THE CENTURION AT THE CROSS; (5) THE WATCHING OF THE WOMEN Of these, (2) and (3) ar...
Ver 51. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints whi...
_JESUS' DEATH AND BURIAL MATTHEW 27:32-66:_ The power of the cross makes salvation possible. The sign over His head read, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." He is far more though, "Now to the King...
ΈΞΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΕΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить. _Сопутств._ или _temp. part._ ΈΓΕΡΣΝΣ (G1454) воскресение, ΕΊΣΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) входить, заходить, ΈΝΕΦΑΝΊΣΘΗΣΑ...
AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED, &C.— The ancient sepulchres were hewn out of rocks, which being rent by the earthquake, discovered the cells wherein the bodies of the dead were deposited; but though these...
MIRACLES ACCOMPANYING THE DEATH OF CHRIST TEXT: 27:51-53 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent; 52 and th...
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. AND CAME OUT OF THE GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION. These sleeping saints (see the note at ) w...
29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3. 30 See Isa_50:6. 31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10. 31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
μετὰ τὴν ἔγερσιν αὐτοῦ, after the raising (active) of Jesus (by God), _i.e._, after Christ's own resurrection: not after the raising (of them) by Him, as if αὐτοῦ were genitive subjective. So Fritzsch...
_Death and its accompaniments_ (Mark 15:37-41; Luke 23:46-49)....
THE BROKEN HEART AND THE RENT VEIL Matthew 27:45-56 With hushed hearts we stand in the presence of “that sight.” It is the tragedy of time; the one supreme act of self-surrender; the unique unapproac...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
CHAPTER 28 CONCURRENT MIRACLES Luke 23:45-49; Mark 15:38-41; Matthew 27:51-56. Our Lord has already expired on the cross, and now we proceed to consider the concurrent miracles so overwhelmingly atte
"Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. (51) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks r...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
53._And went into the holy city. _When Matthew bestows on Jerusalem the honorable designation of _the holy city, _he does not intend to applaud the character of its inhabitants, for we know that it wa...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
AND CAME OUT OF THE GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION,.... The resurrection of Christ; for he rose as the first fruits, as the first begotten of the dead, and the firstborn from the dead; for he was the f...
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Ver. 53. _And appeared unto many_] Not to converse again, as heretofore, with men, but to accom...
_And the graves were opened_ Some of the tombs were shattered and laid open by the earthquake, and doubtless continued open all the sabbath, since the law would not allow of any attempt to close them...
THE HOLY CITY; Jerusalem....
AND CAME OUT OF THE GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION, AND WENT INTO THE HOLY CITY, AND APPEARED UNTO MANY. Christ, in His capacity as Vicar and Mediator, as the Substitute for all mankind, had now endure...
The death of Jesus:...
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
51-56 The rending of the veil signified that Christ, by his death, opened a way to God. We have an open way through Christ to the throne of grace, or mercy-seat now, and to the throne of glory hereaf...
Ver. 51-53. Mark, MARK 15:38, mentions only the rending of the veil. No more doth Luke, LUKE 23:45. John mentions none of these things. It pleased God to give a testimony against this prodigious piece...
Matthew 27:53 and G2532 coming G1831 (G5631) of G1537 graves G3419 after G3326 His G846 resurrection G1454 went...
‘And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared to ma...
DIVINE VINDICATION. JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD (27:45-54). By now Jesus had been on the cross about three hours, and around noon an extraordinary event took place. For over the whole land there came gros...
THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54). In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as ‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
Matthew 27:52-53. THE TOMBS WERE OPENED. The Jewish tombs, unlike our own, were natural or artificial excavations in rocks, the entrance being closed by a door or a large stone. These, the stone doors...
This section describes the _central fact of the world's history_. The accounts of the four Evangelists agree perfectly as to the main points; but each mentions circumstances omitted by the others. Mat...
Matthew 27:51 The Language of the Signs. I. The earthquake. This was (1) a sign wrought by the direct and unusual interposition of the Creator. (2) It was a sign to alarm men, on account of the capit...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
Matthew 27:50. _Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost._ Christ's strength was not exhausted; his last word was uttered with a loud voice, like the shout of a conqueri...
Matthew 27:50. _Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost._ Christ's strength was not exhausted; his last word was uttered with a loud voice, like the shout of a conqueri...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
THEY LEFT THE GRAVES. Matthew states it this way to show that it was not Jesus who raised them from death; but that as Jesus came out of the grave, they also left their graves and went into Jerusalem....
_Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the Ghost._ SEVEN WONDERS There were seven wonders which made the death of Christ exceedingly remarkable. I. Over His head was written a...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:52 SAINTS WHO HAD FALLEN ASLEEP. This shows that the resurrection of people who died looking forward to the Messiah depended on Christ’s actual death and resurrection, as do...
Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:45. FROM THE SIXTH HOUR.—The first three Gospels agree as to time and fact. Assuming them to follow the usual Jewish reckoning (as in Acts 2:15; Acts 3:1;...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
Daniel 9:24; Isaiah 48:2; Matthew 4:5; Nehemiah 11:1; Revelation 11:2;