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 # Mt 27:65
    \\Ye have a watch.\\ That is, ye can have a guard. He granted
 them a guard of Roman soldiers.
 (PNT 158)
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 # Mt 27:66
    \\Sealed the stone.\\ A cord was stretched across the stone
 door and sealed at each end with wax. The seal would have to be
 broken to remove the stone.
 (PNT 158)
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 # Mt 28:1
  SUMMARY OF MATTHEW 28
  \\The Resurrection\\

  The Women at the Sepulchre
  The Message of the Angel
  The Risen Lord
  The Report of the Guard
  The Charge of the Priests
  Christ Appears to the Eleven
  The Meeting in Galilee
  The Great Commission

    \\In the end of the sabbath.\\ After the Sabbath in which
 Jesus had lain in the tomb.
    \\As it began to dawn.\\ All the gospels mark the precious
 moment when the great news first became known. Mark says they
 arrived at sunrise.
 # Mr 16:1
 Compare
 # Mr 16:1-8 Lu 24:1-11 Joh 20:1-21 1Co 15:1-20
    \\The first [day] of the week.\\ The Lord's day, or Sunday.
    \\Came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary.\\ Mary, the mother
 of James and Joses. Also Salome.
 # Mr 16:1
 Late on Friday evening they had watched the sepulchre.
 # 27:56
 Now, after the Sabbath, they came with spices in the hope that
 they could anoint the body.
 # Mr 16:1
 These disciples would not break the Sabbath, even to preserve
 the body of their beloved Lord. The Sabbath ended at sunset, so
 that Jesus had been dead and buried Friday night, Saturday, and
 Sunday morning, beginning at the previous sunset, three days
 according to Jewish reckoning. See
 # 1Sa 30:12-13 2Ch 10:5,12
 (PNT 159)
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 # Mt 28:2
    \\Behold, there was a great earthquake.\\ The word
 \\[seismos]\\ rendered "earthquake" is rendered "tempest" in
 # 8:24
 It means a "commotion." It is not needful to decide that there
 was more than a local disturbance.
    \\For the angel of the Lord descended.\\ An angel. There is
 no article. All the gospels speak of the angelic appearance at
 the tomb, though some give details omitted by others.
    \\Rolled back the stone.\\ The commotion, or earthquake,
 accompanied the rolling back of the stone. "It was not for him
 to whom the stone was no hindrance, but for the women and
 disciples that it was rolled away."--Alford.
 # Joh 20:19-20
 (PNT 159)
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 # Mt 28:3
    \\His countenance was like lightning.\\ Was bright like
 lightning. Compare
 # Ex 34:29 Mt 17:2 Re 1:14
    \\And his raiment white as snow.\\ White is the emblem of
 purity. So was the Saviour's raiment at the Transfiguration, and
 the robes of the saints as described in Revelation.
 (PNT 159)
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 # Mt 28:4
    \\The keepers.\\ The Roman soldiers placed to guard the tomb
 with Pilate's consent.
 (PNT 159)
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 # Mt 28:5
    \\Ye seek Jesus, who was crucified.\\ The angel does not
 forget that Jesus is the crucified one, nor do the redeemed in
 heaven.
 # Re 5:6 7:9
 (PNT 159)
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 # Mt 28:6
    \\He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.\\ The women
 had not seen him rise and had to be informed. They therefore
 came to the sepulchre after the resurrection. Christ had risen
 "as he said." For the prophecies of a resurrection see
 # 16:21 Lu 24:6
    \\See the place where the Lord lay.\\ The angel does not say
 "your," but \\the\\ Lord--the Lord of the angels as well as men.
 (PNT 159)
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 # Mt 28:7
    \\Tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.\\ To
 woman it was first announced that the birth of the child whose
 name should be Jesus, "because he should save his people from
 their sins" was near;
 # 1:21
 women were the last of his disciples to linger at the cross or
 to watch at the sepulchre; they were the first to see the empty
 tomb, to hear the glad news, or to be sent to tell the story of
 their risen Lord.
    \\He goeth before you into Galilee.\\ They are cited to
 Galilee to meet the Lord, not that his only appearance would be
 there, for that was the seventh, but because, in that country,
 where the largest number of his disciples lived, he proposed to
 reveal himself to the whole body of saints. There he was seen
 "by about five hundred brethren at once."
 # 1Co 15:6
 (PNT 159-160)
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 # Mt 28:9
    \\Jesus met them, saying, All hail.\\ This was the second
 appearance of the Risen Saviour. The appearances were:
 (1) To Mary Magdalene alone, near Jerusalem--Sunday, April 9.
     # Mr 16:9 Joh 20:11-18
 (2) To the women returning from the sepulchre.
     # 28:9-10
 (3) To Simon Peter alone.
     # Lu 24:34
 (4) To the two disciples going to Emmaus.
     # Lu 24:13
 (5) To the apostles at Jerusalem, excepting Thomas, who was
     absent. These are all the same day.
     # Joh 20:19
 (6) To the apostles at Jerusalem a second time, when Thomas was
     present--Sunday, one week later.
     # Joh 20:26,29
 (7) At the Sea of Tiberias, when seven disciples were fishing.
     # Joh 21:1
 (8) To the eleven disciples on a mountain in Galilee.
     # 28:16
 (9) To about five hundred brethren at once, in Galilee, near the
     time of the last. It is possible these two are identical.
     # 1Co 15:6
 (10) To James only.
      # 1Co 15:7
 (11) To all the apostles on Mt. Olivet at his ascension--
      Thursday, May 18.
      # Lu 24:51
 (12) We may add to these that he was seen by Saul of Tarsus
      and by John on Patmos.
      # Ac 9:3 Re 1:13
 (Johnston TPNT 160)
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 # Mt 28:10
    \\Be not afraid.\\ They had met the Lord while hastening to
 tell the story of his resurrection. It is when we are in the
 path of duty that we will enjoy his presence and his blessing.
    \\Go tell my brethren.\\ This is the first time he had called
 the disciples his brethren.
 (PNT 160)
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 # Mt 28:11
    \\Behold, some of the watch came into the city.\\ The time
 when these men went into the city is noted. It was while the
 women were on their way to tell the disciples. It is also stated
 that "some of the watch" only went to the priests. How numerous
 the watch was we are not informed. As the watch had been set by
 the priests themselves, it made its report to them instead of to
 Pilate.
 # 27:65,66
 (PNT 160)
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 # Mt 28:12
    \\They.\\ The chief priests.
    \\Were assembled with the elders.\\ Probably a secret meeting
 of the leading members of the Sanhedrin. They had gone too far
 into crime to stop.
 (PNT 160)
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 # Mt 28:13
    \\His disciples came by night,\\ etc. The improbability of
 this story is easily seen:
 (1) The soldiers would not dare to go to sleep on guard. It was
     death.
 (2) If they had gone to sleep they could testify nothing of
     what was done while asleep. Their testimony of what
     occurred then would be worthless.
 (3) The disciples did not expect a resurrection and would
     hardly believe it when it occurred.
 (4) They had shown themselves cowards and would not have dared
     to take his body away.
 (5) Had they dared, had the Roman soldiers slept, they could
     not have removed the stone and carried off the body without
     detection. It was a night lighted with the full moon and
     all the environs of Jerusalem were crowded with people
     attending the passover.
 (PNT 160)
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 # Mt 28:14
    \\If this shall come to the governor's ears,\\ etc. As he had
 taken so little interest in the matter as to leave the watch to
 them it was not likely it would come to his ears at all, as we
 know that he was wont to spend only a few days at Jerusalem and
 then return to Caesarea.
 (PNT 161)
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 # Mt 28:15
    \\This saying is commonly reported . . . until this day.\\ It
 was still current among the Jews when Justin Martyr wrote in the
 second century, at least a hundred years after Matthew penned
 these words.
 (PNT 161)
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 # Mt 28:16
    \\The eleven disciples went away into Galilee.\\ The time
 when they went to Galilee is not stated, though we learn from
 John that they remained in Judea for over a week after the
 resurrection.
 # Joh 20:26
 Of the appearances in Galilee we have three accounts: the brief
 one here, which describes the official meeting of the Lord with
 the entire body of disciples: the one by the sea, described in
 John 21, and the reference by Paul.
 # Joh 21:1 1Co 15:6
 The eleven went into Galilee because the Lord had commanded them
 to do so.
    \\Into a mountain where Jesus had appointed.\\ The ASV says,
 "the mountain," which is correct. The Lord had named the
 mountain where he should meet them, and had probably also
 appointed the time. The object of the appointment was probably
 to secure a general meeting of his disciples.
 (PNT 161)
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 # Mt 28:17
    \\When they saw him, they worshipped him.\\ It is also stated
 of the women that they worshipped him, or kneeled at his feet.
 # 28:9
    \\Some doubted.\\ This does not, as I suppose, refer to the
 eleven. The doubts of all, including the sceptical Thomas, had
 been silenced before this. But the story that he had risen
 seemed so incredible, that there were those assembled on this
 occasion who had been doubters. These, "when they saw him,"
 remained doubters no longer, but "worshipped him."
 (PNT 161)
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 # Mt 28:18
    \\Spoke to them.\\ To the whole assembly of five hundred
 brethren.
 # 1Co 15:6
 A commission had been given long before to the twelve apostles,
 and also to the seventy, but it differed widely from the one now
 given.
 # 10:1-15
 It confined the preaching to the Jews, and announced the kingdom
 of heaven as yet in the future. Now the preachers of Christ are
 sent, by the authority of the King, to make disciples of all
 nations. The old dispensation had ended with the cross. The new
 one had begun with the resurrection.
    \\All authority.\\ Henceforth he was the King and Judge of
 the nations. The word "is given" denotes the source from whence
 he obtained his power, and implies that it was not inherent in
 the Son. Php 2:9 indicates that it was given to him after, and
 in consequence of, his voluntary humiliation; and 1Co 15:27,
 shows that it held in subjection to the Father. It was because
 the authority to rule the world had been placed in his hands
 that he issued his commands that it should be conquered.
 (PNT 161)
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 # Mt 28:19
    \\Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all nations\\ (ASV).
 Notice several things:
 (1) \\Go\\, implies an aggressive warfare. The Gospel army must move
     upon the nations. The Lord seeks universal obedience, and sends
     forth his armies to conquer hearts and minds around the world.
     Every church and every disciple must understand that they have
     marching orders.
 (2) Not only is every saint commanded to \\go\\, or to take steps to
     send out the gospel, but the goal is stated. They are to make
     \\disciples\\, or pupils to learn to follow the way of Christ.
 # 1Co 3:1
 (3) Who are to be made disciples is next indicated. Not only the
     Jews, but \\all nations.\\ Christ came to be the Saviour of the
     world. His religion is universal. In the Great Commission he
     looks beyond Judea, and commands that the Gospel shall be offered
     to all nations. The test of nineteen centuries shows that
     Christianity is not local or national, but is beneficial to all
     mankind.
 (4) It is next stated how disciples shall be made. \\Baptizing\\
     \\them.\\ The rite by which those who believe upon him should be
     formally enrolled in the school of Christ is baptism. It is not
     here a baptism of the Spirit that he means, because it is his
     listeners who are to baptize.  Since He alone baptized with the
     Spirit; and his apostles and disciples baptized in water, it must
     be to water baptism that he refers. When we observe the preaching
     of the apostles under this Great Commission, we find that
     converts were at once baptized.
 # Ac 2:38-41 8:12-18
 (5) The end or result of baptism is also given. Converts were to
     be baptized "into the name of the Father, and of the Son,
     and of the Holy Spirit." It is a positive affirmation of the
     OT that where the name of the Lord is recorded there will he
     meet his disciples, or there will be his presence. See
 # Ex 20:24
 (PNT 161-162 edited)
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 # Mt 28:20
    \\Teaching them.\\ The second part of the commission is next
 given. The first part commands the making of disciples, and
 tells how they must be made. The second part provides for the
 instruction of the disciples in righteousness. This is to be
 done by "teaching them."
    \\To observe all things whatever I have commanded you.\\ What
 must be taught by the faithful Christian teacher is prescribed.
 It will at once be seen that this cuts off much that is often
 taught. We are not to teach "untaught questions," "oppositions
 of science, so called," dogmatic speculations, isms or human
 creeds. Christ has never commanded these. On the other hand, we
 are to teach \\all things\\ he has commanded. Some of these
 things we have recorded in the Gospels; others we have in the
 Acts and in the Epistles. They embrace the various duties of
 Christian life.
    \\I am with you always.\\ It was an arduous work he had
 commanded his disciples to undertake; a few uninfluential and
 unlettered labouring men to undertake the moral and religious
 conquest of a world that had just crucified their Master. There
 was, however, an assurance that they should be equal to the
 task, for
 (1) All power, or authority, in heaven and earth was in the
     hands of their crucified Lord.
 (2) He now declares, "I am with you always." He who has all
     power will be present with them, a help in time of need. He
     is a mighty, present and helping Saviour.
    \\[Even] to the end of the world.\\ Until the close of the
 Christian dispensation, coming of the Lord, and the day of
 judgment.
 (PNT 162)
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 # Mr 1:1
  SUMMARY OF MARK 1
  \\The Beginning of the Ministry of Christ\\

  The Mission of John the Baptist
  His Preaching in the Wilderness
  His Baptism in the Jordan
  The Baptism of Jesus and the Anointing
  The Temptation
  Christ's Ministry in Galilee Begun
  The Call of Four Apostles
  An Unclean Spirit Cast Out
  The Increased Fame of Jesus
  Peter's Wife's Mother
  Solitary Prayer
  Preaching Throughout Galilee
  Healing the Leper

    \\The beginning\\, etc. This is a sort of title. The whole
 history of Jesus is an unfolding of the gospel.
    \\Gospel.\\ Good news.
    \\Jesus.\\ The personal name given by the angel meaning
 "Saviour."
 # Mt 1:21
    \\Christ.\\ The official title of the Lord. It means "the
 anointed." Kings and priests were anointed in Israel, and Jesus,
 "the Lord Anointed," is our Priest and King. They were anointed
 with oil; Jesus with the Holy Spirit.
 (PNT 164)

 See topic Johnson's Introduction to Mark                    9153
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 # Mr 1:2-3
    \\As it is written in the prophets.\\
 # Isa 40:3 Mal 3:1
 See note on "Mt 3:3"
 See note on "Mt 11:10"
 (PNT 164)
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 # Mr 1:4
    \\John was baptizing in the wilderness.\\ For account of the
 wilderness and John the Baptist,
 see note on "Mt 3:1"
    \\And preaching the baptism of repentance.\\ He preached, as
 well as baptized. Only those who repented were fit subjects of
 baptism. Hence it was called "the baptism of repentance."
 Repentance signifies not only sorrow for sin, but the resolve to
 sin no more.
    \\For the remission of sins.\\ This indicates the object of
 repentance and baptism. Those who repented were pardoned. Compare
 # Ac 2:38
 (PNT 164 edited)
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 # Mr 1:5
    \\There went out to him.\\
    See note on "Mt 3:5"
    See note on "Mt 3:6"
 (PNT 164)
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 # Mr 1:6
    \\John was clothed with camel's hair.\\
    See note on "Mt 3:4"
 (PNT 164)
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 # Mr 1:7
    \\There cometh after me.\\
    See note on "Mt 3:11"
 (PNT 164)
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 # Mr 1:8
    \\He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.\\
    See note on "Mt 3:11"
 (PNT 164)
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 # Mr 1:9
    \\In those days.\\ When John had been preaching and baptizing
 about six months. For the account of the baptism of Jesus
 see note on "Mt 3:13"
 see note on "Mt 3:17"
 (PNT 165)
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 # Mr 1:10
    \\Immediately coming up out of the water.\\ The Greek
 preposition translated "out of" is \\ek\\, which means out from
 within. This could only be true of immersion. All great
 Pedo-baptist scholars concede that Christ was baptized by
 immersion.
 (PNT 165 edited)
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 # Mr 1:13
    \\Tempted of Satan.\\
    See note on "Mt 4:1"
    See note on "Mt 4:2"
    See note on "Mt 4:3"
    See note on "Mt 4:4"
    See note on "Mt 4:5"
    See note on "Mt 4:6"
    See note on "Mt 4:7"
    See note on "Mt 4:8"
    See note on "Mt 4:9"
    See note on "Mt 4:10"
    See note on "Mt 4:11"
 (PNT 165)
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 # Mr 1:14
    \\Now after John was put in prison.\\ Mark proceeds to the
 account of the Saviour's public ministry in Galilee. Between
 Christ's baptism and this occurred the events narrated in John,
 chapters 2, 3, and 4. For notes on this ministry
 see note on "Mt 4:12"
 see note on "Mt 4:13"
 see note on "Mt 4:14"
 see note on "Mt 4:15"
 see note on "Mt 4:16"
 see note on "Mt 4:17"
 see note on "Mt 4:18"
 see note on "Mt 4:19"
 see note on "Mt 4:20"
 see note on "Mt 4:21"
 see note on "Mt 4:22"
 see note on "Mt 4:23"
 see note on "Mt 4:24"
 see note on "Mt 4:25"
 (PNT 165)
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 #Mark 1:15

    \\Time is fulfilled.\\ the time determined by God for the revelation of
 the Messiah...foretold by the prophets,
 # Dan 2:44 * hence Christ is said to have come..."in the dispensation
 of the fulness of times,"
 # Gal 4:4 Eph 1:10

    \\The kingdom of God is at hand.\\ the gracious dispensation
 of God in the gospel is at hand, or hath approached.

 (Matthew Poole)
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 # Mr 1:16
    \\He saw Simon and Andrew.\\ For notes on the call of the
 four apostles
 see note on "Mt 4:18"
 see note on "Mt 4:19"
 see note on "Mt 4:20"
 see note on "Mt 4:21"
 see note on "Mt 4:22"
 (PNT 165)
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 # Mr 1:21
    \\They went into Capernaum.\\ For account of Capernaum
    see note on "Mt 4:13"
    \\Entered into the synagogue.\\ For description of Jewish
 synagogue
 see note on "Mt 4:23"
 (PNT 165)
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 # Mr 1:22
    \\They were astonished at his doctrine.\\
    See note on "Mt 7:28"
    \\Scribes.\\ For account of scribes
    see note on "Mt 5:20"
 (PNT 166)
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 # Mr 1:23
    \\A man with an unclean spirit.\\
    See note on "Mt 8:28"
 Compare
 # Lu 4:31-37
 The NT plainly teaches that demoniac possession was a real and
 actual possession of the soul by a fallen spirit.
 (PNT 166)
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 # Mr 1:24
    \\What have we to do with thee?\\ A common Jewish way of
 saying, "Do not trouble us."
    \\Art thou come to destroy us?\\ An admission that Christ
 came to destroy the devil and his works.
    \\I know thee.\\ The demon made a better confession that most
 of the Jews.
 (PNT 166)
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 # Mr 1:26
    \\He came out of him.\\ At the command. The whole account
 shows that there was a real possession by an evil spirit.
 (PNT 166)
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 # Mr 1:27
    \\They were all amazed.\\ Those in the synagogue.
 (PNT 166)
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 # Mr 1:28
    \\His fame spread abroad.\\ For notes on the increasing fame
 of Christ
 see note on "Mt 4:25"
 (PNT 166)