4And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
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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.
And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. …
And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
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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