Mat 27:54. Τηροῦντες, watching) In their turn.-ἀληθῶς, truly) This refers antithetically to Mat 27:40; Mat 27:43.-Θεοῦ Υἱὸς, Son of God) He had said that He was so, and they acknowledge the truth of His assertion from the signs.[1214]
[1214] Mat 27:55. ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλιλαίας, from Galilee) The journey (of Jesus and His followers) from Galilee towards Jerusalem [His last journey], recorded in Luk 9:51, is the one here meant. What great things these women, equally with the apostles, saw and heard in so short a space of time! These women already make up for His being deserted by the apostles.-Harm., p. 578. They were the steady attendants of Jesus in His life and death. Therefore no part of the Gospel history is destitute of eye-witnesses.-V. g.