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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 15:45-47

Mark 15:45-47. And he gave the body to Joseph Pilate gave Joseph leave to take down the body, and do with it what he pleased, the priests either not knowing that he was disposed to make such a grant, or being so influenced that they did not oppose his making it. And he bought fine linen Thus showing in what great estimation he held Jesus; and took him down Mangled and macerated as his body was; and wrapped it in the linen As a treasure of great worth; and laid it in a sepulchre To... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Mark 15:42-47

160. The burial (Matthew 27:57-66; Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56; John 19:38-42)Two members of the Sanhedrin did not agree with the decision to crucify Jesus. They were Nicodemus (cf. John 3:1-12; John 7:45-52) and Joseph, the latter being a man from the Judean town of Arimathea. Joseph, like many rich people, had built a fine tomb to be used one day for himself, but he sacrificed it so that Jesus could have an honourable burial. The two men took the body down from the cross late on the Friday... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 15:44

marvelled = wondered. This verse and the next are a Divine supplement, peculiar to Mark. if He were, &c. Implying a hypothesis which he did not yet expect. App-118 . any while = long. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 15:45

knew . = having got to know. Greek. ginsoko. See App-132 . gave = made a gift of (Greek. doreo). Occurs only here and 2 Peter 1:3 , I. body. Greek. some = body. But all the texts read ptoma = corpse. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 15:46

fine linen . Greek. sindon. See note on Mark 14:61 , Mark 14:62 . sepulchre memorial tomb. out of . Greek. ek. App-104 . Not the same word as in Mark 15:21 . rock . Greek. petra , as in Matthew 16:18 . a stone. See note on Matthew 27:60 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Mark 15:47

beheld = were (attentively) looking on so as to see exactly. Greek. thereo, App-133 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 15:44

And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.If the place of the crucifixion was the skull-shaped hill mentioned earlier, even an ordinary messenger in the employ of the governor could have covered the distance in less than five minutes; so the time factor here is of no great importance. Pilate's surprise was due to the fact that crucifixion was designed as a slow death; and for Jesus to have been dead so... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 15:45

And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.Here appears corroboration at the highest official level of the fact of Jesus' actual death. The swoon theory of the resurrection cannot stand against the evidence here. Pilate made sure that it was a corpse that he released to Joseph; and as the Scriptures foretold, Jesus died. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 15:46

And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.Sanner noted five aspects of Joseph's ministry to the Lord thus:He purchased fine linen (Mark 15:46), removed the body from the cross and wrapped it in the linen shroud (see John 19:40), laid him in his own new rock-hewn sepulchre (which was in a garden on a nearby hillside), and rolled a heavy stone against... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Mark 15:47

And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus beheld where he was laid.The granting of precedence in this verse to Mary Magdalene, out of whom the Lord had cast seven devils, and the mention of her name ahead of that of Mary the mother of Jesus, defies any human explanation of it. Such unexpected and utterly amazing elements in the gospel of Christ afford incidental but overwhelmingly persuasive evidence of the divine nature of the sacred records. No forger could ever have thought of anything... read more

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