35—42. XX. 1—3. S6r
40. ἔλαβον οὖν τὸ σῶμα τοῦ t Here only:
/ / καὶ ' ἀλόης ὡσεὶ "λίτρας ἑκατόν. U Xil. 3.
᾽μησοῦ, καὶ ἔδησαν αὐτὸ ὀθονίοις μετὰ τῶν " ἀρωμάτων, * καθὼς ν xx. 5, 6.7. be atlas Pe , y2 α δὲ τῶ . . w Mk. xvi. ἔθος ἐστὶ τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις 7 ἐνταφιάζειν. 41. ἦν δὲ TH τόπῳ, ὅπου 1, οἷς, a ΧΙ ac. X. ἐσταυρώθη, κῆπος, καὶ ἐν τῷ *KHTH μνημεῖον καινὸν, ἐν ᾧ οὐδέπω 5. 3 8 a 3 ron. οὐδεὶς ἐτέθη. 42. ἐκεῖ οὖν διὰ τὴν " παρασκευὴν τῶν ‘loudaiwy, ὅτι xvi. 14. _ > . 4 x a > ee A y Mat. xxvi. ἐγγὺς ἦν τὸ μνημεῖον, ἔθηκαν τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν. τα αν , z 2 Kings XX. 1. THe δὲ "μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ ἔρχεται ΄ xxi. 26.
a ver. 14.
lal ‘ , Ῥπρωϊ, σκοτίας ἔτι οὔσης, eis τὸ μνημεῖον" καὶ βλέπει τὸν λίθον 2 Acts xx. 7.
ἠρμένον ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου.
Mk. xvi. 2.
3. Ν ” 9 , 2. τρέχει οὖν καὶ έρχεται πρὸς Σίµωνα y Gen. i. s.
c
Πέτρον καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἄλλον μαθητὴν ὃν epider 6 “Ingods, καὶ λέγεις ο ώς
- lol , Δ A αὐτοῖς, 3 Ἠραν τὸν κύριον ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου, καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν ποῦ ῃ
ἔθηκαν αὐτόν.
δηµος. ‘Thus Jesus by being lifted up is already drawing men unto Him. These Jewish aristocrats first confess Him in the hour of His deepest de- gradation.” Plummer. Nicodemus is identified as 6 ἐλθὼν . . . τὸ πρῶτον, ‘*he who came to Jesus by night at the first ’’; iii. 1, in contrast to the boldness of his coming now. Φέρων piypa... ἑκατόν. piypa, a “confection” or “* compound,” ο, Ecclus. xxxviii. 8. σµύρνης καὶ ἀλόης, “of myrrh and
aloes”. Myrrh was similarly used by the Egyptians, see Herod., ii. 83. Cf. Ps. xlv. 9. ὡσεὶ λίτρας ἑκατόν. The
λίτρα (libra) was rather over eleven ounces avoirdupois. The enormous quantity has been accounted for as a rich man’s expression of devotion, or as required if the entire body and all the wrappings were to be smeared with it, and if the grave itself was to be filled with unguents as in 2 Chron. xvi. 14. —Ver. 40. ἔλαβον . . . ἐνταφιάζειν. They wrapped the body in strips of linen along with the aromatic preparations (2 Chron. xvi. 14, ἀρωμάτων), as is the custom (ὡς ἔθος ἐστί, 1 Macc. x. 80) with the Jews (other peoples having other customs) to prepare for burial.— Ver. 41. ἐνταφιάζειν, see Gen. 1. 1-3. Hv ἐν τῷ τόπῳ, ‘There was in the place,” 1.ει, in that neighbourhood, κῆπος, a garden, which, according to Mt. xxvii. 60, must have belonged to Joseph. μνημεῖον καινόν, a tomb, rock- hewn according to Synoptists, which had hitherto been unused, and which was therefore fresh and clean.—Ver. 42. “There, accordingly, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was at hand, they laid Jesus.” The Friday was so nearly at an end that they had not time to go to any
3. Ἐξῆλθεν οὖν ὁ Πέτρος καὶ 6 ἄλλος μαθητὴς,
xiv. 46. δι τη xix. 38.
distance, and therefore availed them- selves of the neighbouring tomb as a provisional, if not permanent, resting- place.
CHAPTER XX.—The resurrection and subsequent manifestations.—Vv._ 1-10. The empty tomb.—Ver. 1. THe δὲ pug τῶν σαββάτων: ‘And on the first day of the week”. Mk. (xvi. 2) and Lk. (xxiv. 1) have the same expression, Mt. (xxviii. 1) has ὀψὲ δὲ σαββάτων, τῇ ἐπιφωσκούσῃ εἰς µίαν σαββάτων. [In the suspected ninth verse of Mk. xvi. πρώτῃ appears instead of µιᾷ.]--Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνἡ ἔρχεται, Mary of Magdala, now Mejdel, a fishing village north of Tiberias ; she is further described in Mk. xvi. Qg as wap 7s ἐκβεβλήκει ἑπτὰ δαιμόνια (cf. Lk. viii. 2), which lends significance both to her being at the tomb and to her being the first to see the Lord. She alone of the three women present is here named, because she alone is required in John’s account. The time is more exactly described as pot, σκοτίας. ἔτι οὔσης. Mk. (xvi. 2) has λίαν mpot, but adds ἀνατείλαντος τοῦ ἡλίου, ap- parently having chiefly in view, not the first arrival of the women, but the appearance of Jesus to Mary. Luke’s ὄρθρου βαθέος agrees with John’s ex- pression. Phrynichus defines ὄρθρος as the time before the day began while a lamp was still needed. [Cf. Plato’s Crito at the beginning, and Roger’s note on Aristoph., Wasps, 215.] The dark- ness is noticed by John to account for her seeing nothing of what Peter and John afterwards saw. She could not, however, fail to see τὸν λίθον ἠρμένον ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου; the slab closing the sepulchre had been removed. Seeing this she naturally concluded that the tomb had been violated, possibly that