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Mat 28:1-15. Glorious angelic announcement on the first day of the week, that Christ is risen - His appearance to the women - The guards bribed to give a false account of the resurrection. ( = Mar 16:1-8; Luk 24:1-8; Joh 20:1).
Mat 28:1-8. The Resurrection announced to the women.
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn - after the Sabbath, as it grew toward daylight.
toward the first day of the week - Luke (Luk 24:1) has it, “very early in the morning” - properly, “at the first appearance of daybreak”; and corresponding with this, John (Joh 20:1) says, “when it was yet dark.” See on Mar 16:2. Not an hour, it would seem, was lost by those dear lovers of the Lord Jesus.
came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary - “the mother of James and Joses” (see on Mat 27:56; see on Mat 27:61).
to see the sepulchre - with a view to the anointing of the body, for which they had made all their preparations. (See on Mar 16:1, Mar 16:2).
And, behold, there was - that is, there had been, before the arrival of the women.
a great earthquake; for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, etc. - And this was the state of things when the women drew near. Some judicious critics think all this was transacted while the women were approaching; but the view we have given, which is the prevalent one, seems the more natural. All this august preparation - recorded by Matthew alone - bespoke the grandeur of the exit which was to follow. The angel sat upon the huge stone, to overawe, with the lightning-luster that darted from him, the Roman guard, and do honor to his rising Lord.