5And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
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And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. …
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: …
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)The manner of the re-uniting of Christ’s soul and body in his resurrection is a mystery, one of the secret things that belong not to us ; but the infallible proofs of his resurrection, that he did indeed rise from the dead, and was thereby proved to be the Son of God, are things revealed, which belong to us and to our children . Some of them we have here in these verses, which relate the same stor…
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