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Mark 16.1-8
Good News Translation (GNT)
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1 After the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene,
Mary the mother of James, and Salome
bought spices to go and anoint the body of
Jesus.
2 Very early on Sunday morning, at sunrise,
they went to the tomb.
3-4 On the way they said to one another,
"Who will roll away the stone for us from the
entrance to the tomb?" (It was a very large
stone.) Then they looked up and saw that the
stone had already been rolled back.
5 So they entered the tomb, where they saw a
young man sitting at the right, wearing a white
robe - and they were alarmed.
6 "Don't be alarmed," he said. "I know you are
looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was
crucified. He is not here - he has been raised!
Look, here is the place where he was placed.
7 Now go and give this message to his disciples,
including Peter: 'He is going to Galilee ahead
of you; there you will see him, just as he told
you.'"
7 So they went out and ran from the tomb,
distressed and terrified. They said nothing to
anyone, because they were afraid.
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Commentary taken from
'The Applied New Testament Commentary'
(Kingsway)
The Resurrection
Mark Chapter 16 v1-8
When the Sabbath was over, that is, at 6pm on Saturday, the same women who had watched Jesus on the cross bought and prepared spices and aromatic oils with which to further anoint Jesus' body.
When the women got to the tomb, they found the great stone rolled away.
According to Matthew 28:2-4, there had been an earthquake, and an angel had come from heaven and rolled away the stone.
The guards who had been appointed to guard the tomb were so afraid of him that they shook and became as dead men.
The angel, who appeared in the form of a young man, was sitting on the stone at the right side of the entrance to the tomb.
The women were alarmed because his appearance was like lightning.
According to Luke 24:4, there was also a second angel present, who is not mentioned by Matthew and Mark.
The angels said to the women, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?".
"He has risen. He is going ahead of you into Galilee .. . just as he told you".
The women fled from the tomb.
At first, they said nothing to anyone.
But then, they obeyed the order of the angel (verse 7) and ran to tell the disciples.
He has risen!
Since the creation of the world, there has never been another event as important as the rising of Jesus from the dead.
If He had not risen from the dead, there would be no Christian religion, no Christians.
There would be no salvation for man.
The whole course of history would have been totally different.
Because, by rising from the dead, Jesus gave final and absolute proof that He was indeed God's own Son.
God Himself came to earth and overcame the last enemy, death, and showed men and women the way to heaven.
Some atheists try to say that Jesus never rose, that it is only a myth invented by Jesus' disciples.
However, they are wrong.
Jesus' resurrection is a fact of history. How do we know this?
First of all, the tomb was empty.
No one denies this.
If Jesus did not rise from the dead, where did His body go?
Roman soldiers were guarding the tomb.
Some Jews to this day say that Jesus' disciples stole the body; but that would have been impossible with Roman guards at the entrance.
Besides, the disciples had deserted Jesus and were hiding in fear of the Jews.
Furthermore, the Jews and Romans surely made a careful search for Jesus' body.
The Jews especially wanted some means of disproving Jesus' resurrection; what better way than to find His body!
But it was nowhere to be found.
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