2And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
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The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Never was there such a sabbath since the sabbath was first instituted as this was, which the first words of this chapter tell us was now past ; during all this sabbath our Lord Jesus lay in the grave. It was to him a sabbath of rest , but a silent sabbath, it was to his disciples a melancholy sabbath, spent in tears and fears. Never were the sabbath services in the temple such an abomination to Go…
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