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<p id="Chapter16" align="center">Commentary by DAVID BROWN<br>CHAPTER 16
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<p id="Mr16_1"><a onclick="return mV('Mar',16,'1-20');">Mar 16:1-20</a>. ANGELIC ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE WOMEN ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, THAT CHRIST IS RISEN—HIS APPEARANCES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION—HIS ASCENSION—TRIUMPHANT PROCLAMATION OF HIS GOSPEL. (= <a onclick="return mV('Mat',28,'1-10','16-20);">Mat 28:1-10, 16-20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',24,'1-51');">Luk 24:1-51</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',20,1,2,'11-29');">Jhn 20:1-2, 11-29</a>).
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<p><i>The Resurrection Announced to the Women</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Mar',16,'1-8');">Mar 16:1-8</a>).
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<p><b>1. when the sabbath was past</b>—that is, at sunset of our Saturday.
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<br><br><b>Mary Magdalene</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Luk/Luk008.html#Lu8_2">Luk 8:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>Mary the mother of James</b>—James the Less (see <a onclick="return mV('Mar',15,40);">Mar 15:40</a>).
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<br><br><b>and Salome</b>—the mother of Zebedee's sons (compare <a onclick="return mV('Mar',15,40);">Mar 15:40</a>).
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<br><br><b>had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him</b>—The word is simply "bought." But our translators are perhaps right in rendering it here "had bought," since it would appear, from <a onclick="return mV('Luk',23,56);">Luk 23:56</a>, that they had purchased them immediately after the Crucifixion, on the <i>Friday</i> evening, during the short interval that remained to them before sunset, when the sabbath rest began; and that they had only deferred using them to anoint the body till the sabbath rest should be over. On this "anointing," see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jhn/Jhn019.html#Joh19_40">Joh 19:40</a>.
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<p id="Mr16_2"><b>2. very early in the morning</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mat/Mat028.html#Mt28_1">Mat 28:1</a>).
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<br><br><b>the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun</b>—not quite literally, but "at earliest dawn"; according to a way of speaking not uncommon, and occurring sometimes in the Old Testament. Thus our Lord rose on the third day; having lain in the grave part of Friday, the whole of Saturday, and part of the following First day.
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<p id="Mr16_3"><b>3. they said among themselves</b>—as they were approaching the sacred spot.
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<br><br><b>Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?... for it was very great</b>—On reaching it they find their difficulty gone—the stone already rolled away by an unseen hand. <i>And are there no others who, when advancing to duty in the face of appalling difficulties, find their stone also rolled away?</i>
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<p id="Mr16_5"><b>5. entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man</b>—In <a onclick="return mV('Mat',28,2);">Mat 28:2</a> he is called "the angel of the Lord"; but here he is described as he appeared to the eye, in the bloom of a life that knows no decay. In Matthew he is represented as sitting on the stone <i>outside</i> the sepulchre; but since even there he says, "<i>Come,</i> see the place where the Lord lay" (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',28,6);">Mat 28:6</a>), he seems, as ALFORD says, to have gone in with them from without; only awaiting their arrival to accompany them into the hallowed spot, and instruct them about it.
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<br><br><b>sitting on the right side</b>—having respect to the position in which His Lord had lain there. This trait is peculiar to Mark; but compare <a onclick="return mV('Luk',1,11);">Luk 1:11</a>.
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<br><br><b>clothed in a long white garment</b>—On its <i>length,</i> see <a onclick="return mV('Isa',6,1);">Isa 6:1</a>; and on its <i>whiteness,</i> see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mat/Mat028.html#Mt28_3">Mat 28:3</a>.
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<br><br><b>and they were affrighted.</b>
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<p id="Mr16_6"><b>6. he saith unto them, Be not affrighted</b>—a stronger word than "Fear not" in Matthew (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',28,5);">Mat 28:5</a>).
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<br><br><b>Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified!</b>—"the Nazarene, the Crucified,"
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<br><br><b>he is risen; he is not here</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Luk/Luk024.html#Lu24_5">Luk 24:5-6</a>).
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<br><br><b>behold the place where they laid him</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mat/Mat028.html#Mt28_6">Mat 28:6</a>).
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<p id="Mr16_7"><b>7. But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter</b>—This Second Gospel, being drawn up—as all the earliest tradition states—<i>under the eye of Peter,</i> or from materials chiefly furnished by him, there is something deeply affecting in the preservation of this little phrase by Mark alone.
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<br><br><b>that he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him, as he said unto you</b>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Mat/Mat028.html#Mt28_7">Mat 28:7</a>).
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<p id="Mr16_8"><b>8. And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre: for they trembled and were amazed</b>—"for tremor and amazement seized them."
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<br><br><b>neither said they anything to any man; for they were afraid</b>—How intensely natural and simple is this!
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<p id="Mar16_9"></a>
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<p><i>Appearances of Jesus after His Resurrection</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Mar',16,'9-18');">Mar 16:9-18</a>).
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<p><b>9. Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils</b>—There is some difficulty here, and different ways of removing it have been adopted. She had gone with the other women to the sepulchre (<a onclick="return mV('Mar',16,1);">Mar 16:1</a>), parting from them, perhaps, before their interview with the angel, and on finding Peter and John she had come with them back to the spot; and it was at this second visit, it would seem, that Jesus appeared to this Mary, as detailed in <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',20,'11-18');">Jhn 20:11-18</a>. <i>To a woman was this honor given to be the first that saw the risen Redeemer, and that woman was</i> NOT <i>his virgin-mother.</i>
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<p id="Mr16_11"><b>11. they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not</b>—This, which is once and again repeated of them all, is most important in its bearing on their subsequent testimony to His resurrection at the risk of life itself.
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<p id="Mr16_12"><b>12. After that he appeared in another form</b>—(compare <a onclick="return mV('Luk',24,16);">Luk 24:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>unto two of them as they walked, and went into the country</b>—The reference here, of course, is to His manifestation to the two disciples going to Emmaus, so exquisitely told by the Third Evangelist (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Luk/Luk024.html#Lu24_13">Luk 24:13</a>, etc.).
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<p id="Mr16_13"><b>13. they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them,</b> etc.
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<p id="Mr16_15"><b>15. he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature</b>—See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jhn/Jhn020.html#Joh20_19">Joh 20:19-23</a> and JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Luk/Luk024.html#Lu24_36">Luk 24:36-49</a>.
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<p id="Mr16_16"><b>16. He that believeth and is baptized</b>—Baptism is here put for the external signature of the inner faith of the heart, just as "confessing with the mouth" is in <a onclick="return mV('Rom',10,10);">Rom 10:10</a>; and there also as here this <i>outward</i> manifestation, once mentioned as the proper fruit of faith, is not repeated in what follows (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',10,11);">Rom 10:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned</b>—These awful issues of the reception or rejection of the Gospel, though often recorded in other connections, are given in this connection only by Mark.
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<p id="Mr16_17"><b>17, 18. these signs shall follow them that believe... They shall take up serpents</b>—These two verses also are peculiar to Mark.
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<p id="Mr16_19"><i>The Ascension and Triumphant Proclamation of the Gospel Thereafter</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Mar',16,19,20);">Mar 16:19-20</a>).
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<p><b>19. So then after the Lord</b>—an epithet applied to Jesus by this Evangelist only in <a onclick="return mV('Mar',16,19,20);">Mar 16:19-20</a>, when He comes to His glorious Ascension and its subsequent fruits. It is most frequent in Luke.
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<br><br><b>had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven</b>—See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Luk/Luk024.html#Lu24_50">Luk 24:50-51</a>.
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<br><br><b>and sat on the right hand of God</b>—This great truth is here only related as a fact in the Gospel history. In that exalted attitude He appeared to Stephen (<a onclick="return mV('Act',7,55,56);">Act 7:55-56</a>); and it is thereafter perpetually referred to as His proper condition in glory.
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<p id="Mr16_20"><b>20. they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen</b>—We have in this closing verse a most important link of connection with the Acts of the Apostles, where He who directed all the movements of the infant Church is perpetually styled "THE LORD"; thus illustrating His own promise for the rounding and building up of the Church, "LO, I AM WITH YOU alway!"
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