Matthew 27:66-28:8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:57-66

Matthew 27:57-66 Buried with Christ. I. There was an old heathen philosophy that taught deadness to this world; it required the thorough laying aside of all human feelings and passions; but what it inculcated partook of that awful and dread calm which nature itself derives from the grave of man; it had nothing of the peace which the Christian learns by the tomb of Christ, wherein there is release from sin by dying with His death, and in those fruits of righteousness wherein God still works,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Matthew 27:62-66

DISCOURSE: 1413THE GUARDING OF THE SEPULCHREMatthew 27:62-66. Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the Chief Priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:1-66

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 group denied his Lord. And at this moment he is out somewhere weeping bitterly over his failure.Now when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took council against Jesus to put him to death: and when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 27:1-66

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 before Annas his arraignment before the sanhedrim his deliverance to the Roman power when arraigned before Pilate his appearance before Herod his return to Pilate, condemnation, scourging, and crucifixion his resurrection his ascension and the promise of his second coming. Here we trace the tragic... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 27:62-66

Matthew 27:62-66Command therefore that the sepulchre be made secure. The Jew and the Roman watching the sepulchreI. This passage of sacred history illustrates the truth that God has “made all things for Himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.” “There is no counsel, nor wisdom, nor understanding against the Lord.”II. Some Christians are chosen of God to display by their great trials His power and wisdom, as Christ was by His death and burial and resurrection.III. Bad men should be... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 27:66

66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. Ver. 66. So they went and made the sepulchre sure ] And now they seemed to dance upon Christ’s grave, as thinking themselves cock sure of him. So did those bloody tyrants of the primitive times (who proudly engraved upon pillars of marble, Nomine Christianorum deleto, qui Remp. evertebant ) I destroyed the name of Christians who turned the state upside down, make no other reckoning, but to raze out the name... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 27:66

and made: Every thing was here done which human policy and prudence could, to prevent a resurrection, which these very precautions had the most direct tendency to authenticate and establish. sealing: Daniel 6:17, 2 Timothy 2:19 Reciprocal: Genesis 22:9 - place Leviticus 1:15 - wring off his head Joshua 10:18 - General Lamentations 3:53 - and Matthew 27:60 - a great Matthew 28:4 - the Matthew 28:11 - some John 11:38 - It was Revelation 20:3 - and set read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 27:66

So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.They went and secured the sepulchre, sealing the stone, and setting a guard — They set Pilate's signet, or the public seal of the sanhedrim upon a fastening which they had put on the stone. And all this uncommon caution was overruled by the providence of God, to give the strongest proofs of Christ's ensuing resurrection; since there could be no room for the least suspicion of deceit, when it should be found, that... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:66

66. Sealing the stone A cord was fastened, with sealing-clay at each end, to the sepulchre, being drawn across the door. Upon the clay the seal of Pilate, or of the priests, was stamped. The door could not be opened, therefore, without breaking the seal; which was a crime against the authority of the proprietor of the seal. The guard was to prevent the duplicity of the disciples; the seal was to secure against the collusion of the guard. So in Daniel 6:17: “A stone was brought, and laid... read more

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