Mark 16:4 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 16:4

But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, even though it was extremely large.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and looking up, they see that the stone is rolled back: for it was exceeding great.

KJV

And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

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Commentary

4 voices

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Mark (1107)

But while they were pondering this, the Angel rolled away the stone, though the women did not perceive it. So too Matthew says that the Angel rolled away the stone after the women had arrived. But Mark was silent about this, because Matthew had already …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They saw that the stone was rolled away, which was the first thing that amazed them. Note, They who are carried by a holy zeal, to seek Christ diligently, will find the difficulties that lie in their way strangely to vanish, and themselves helped over them beyond their expectation.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For it was very great - This clause should be read immediately after the third verse, according to D, three copies of the Itala, Syriac, Hier., and Eusebius. “Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? for it was very great. And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away.” They knew that the stone was too heavy for them to roll away; and, unless they got access to the body, they could not apply the aromatics which they had brought to finish the embalming.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἀναβλέψασαι	anablepsasai	having looked up	G308 →
θεωροῦσιν	theōrousin	they see	G2334 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἀποκεκύλισται	apokekulistai	has been rolled away	G617 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
λίθος·	lithos	stone;	G3037 →
ἦν	ēn	it was	G1510 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
μέγας	megas	large	G3173 →
σφόδρα.	sphodra	extremely.	G4970 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 20:1
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
leads to
- Mark 16:9
  Early on the first day of the week, after Jesus had risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons.
- Matthew 27:60
  and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.
- Luke 24:1–10
  On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.
- Mark 15:46
  So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled…
- Revelation 1:10
  On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
Through
Luke 24:2
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
leads to
- Mark 15:46–47
  So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled…
- Matthew 28:2
  Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.
- Matthew 27:60–66
  and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Mark

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Mark