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MARK CHAPTER 16
Mar_15:1-8 Christ’s resurrection is declared by angels to the
two Marys and Salome.
Mar_15:9-11 Christ himself appeareth to Mary Magdalene,
Mar_15:12,13 to two of his disciples going into the country,
Mar_15:14-18 and to the eleven; whom he commissions to preach
the gospel to all the world.
Mar_15:19,20 His ascension into heaven; the gospel is preached
every where, the Lord confirming the word with signs.
We are now come to the history of our Saviour’s resurrection, his several appearances to and converse with his disciples, from the time of his rising from the dead unto the time of his ascension up into heaven, which was forty days. Of all the evangelists, St. John is most full in his relation of this part of the history of our Saviour, which we shall consider in order; for his two last chapters are wholly spent in this part of the history: in the mean time, as we did in our notes on Mat_28:1-20 take notice only of what Matthew hath upon that argument; so we shall, in the opening of this chapter of Mark, take notice only of what Mark hath not concurrent with, and completory of, what Matthew had before said (for what he hath of that nature, we shall refer the reader to our notes on Matthew). See Poole on "Mat_28:1", and following verses to Mat_28:20. And here we will also take in what Luke hath that tends to the fuller relation of any thing which Mark hath; not meddling with what John hath, but reserving that till we come to open the fuller account of this whole history, in the twentieth and twenty-first chapters of his Gospel.
Ver. 1,2. Matthew saith, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week. John saith, they came early, when it was yet dark. Luke also saith, very early. But it is manifest from the history, that they came a second time, of which Mark may speak, passing over their first coming.