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Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 27:61

The Romans did not permit friends to mourn the deaths of criminals they executed. These women then witnessed Jesus’ burial along with Joseph and Nicodemus (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:4). Matthew’s notation of what they saw prepares for Matthew 28:1. read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Matthew 27:59

27:59 wrapped (c-7) Or 'took the body and wrapped.' read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:1-66

Before Pilate. The Crucifixion1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28: see on Jn).1. When the morning] Since according to St. Luke, who follows an excellent and independent authority, the trial itself did not take place ’until it was day’ (Luke 22:66), this second meeting must be placed some time later in the morning, considerably after cock-crowing (Matthew 26:74). The object of the meeting, which was evidently largely attended, was simply to consider how to induce... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 27:59

(59) A clean linen cloth.—The word for “linen cloth,” Sindôn, points, according to different derivations, to a Sidonian or an Indian fabric. It was probably of the nature of muslin rather than linen, and seems to have been specially used by the Egyptians for folding round their mummies, but sometimes also for the sheet in which a man slept (Herod. ii. 82, 95). In the New Testament it appears only in the account of our Lord’s burial and in the strange narrative of Mark 14:51. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 27:60

(60) Laid it in his own new tomb.—The garden, or orchard, was therefore the property of Joseph (see Note on Matthew 27:33). All the first three Gospels dwell on the fact of its not being, as so many graves were, a natural cavern, but cut, and, as St. Luke’s word implies. to some extent, smoothed and polished. Like almost all Eastern graves, it was an opening made in the vertical face of the rock. Neither of the two localities which have been identified with the sepulchre (see Note as above)... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Matthew 27:61

(61) And there was Mary Magdalene.—The words imply that they remained by the cross while the body was taken down, and watched its entombment: then returning to the house where they lodged, they prepared their spices and ointment before the Sabbath began, for a more complete embalmment, so that they might be ready by the earliest hour of dawn on the first day of the week (Luke 23:56). read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Matthew 27:1-66

Pilate Matthew 27:2 The councils and kings, the orators and lawgivers of Rome, tower out in the backward look of history, when men nearer us in time are lost in the haze. But there is one Roman who shall outlive them all. He held only a petty post in an obscure corner of the Empire, but he sat as judge on Him who shall one day judge the world, and he delivered unto death the Prince of Life. The name of Pontius Pilate, the governor, shall be remembered when every other Roman name may be... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:57-66

Chapter 20The Third Day- Matthew 27:57-66 - Matthew 28:1-15Now that the atoning work of Christ is finished, the story proceeds with rapidity to its close. It was the work of the Evangelist to give the history of the incarnate Son of God; and now that the flesh is laid aside, it is necessary only to give such notes of subsequent events as shall preserve the continuity between the prophetic and priestly work of Christ on earth which it had been His. vocation to describe, and the royal work which,... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Matthew 27:1-66

CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1-2 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3-10 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11-14 .) 4. The Awful Choice.(Matthew 27:15-26 .) 5. Crowned with Thorns and Crucified.(Matthew 27:27-44 .) 6. The Death of the King. (Matthew 27:45-50 .) 7. The Rent Veil and the Earthquake.(Matthew 27:51-56 .) 8. The Burial. (Matthew 27:57-66 .) In this great chapter we follow the Lamb of God to the cross. What a journey it was! He, who had lived that... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:1-66

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 the Roman governor, Pilate. Roman law did not allow the Jews to pass a death sentence (John 19:6-7), so they were urgent in their demand that Pilate should take this responsibility. It seems that Judas had thought that the Lord would have no difficulty in delivering Himself from the power of the... read more

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