Mark 16:5 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 16:5

When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.

BSB

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ASV

And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, arrayed in a white robe; and they were amazed.

KJV

And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.

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Commentary

4 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 21 (604)

But we must note what it means that the angel is seen sitting on the right side. For what is designated by the left except the present life, and what by the right except eternal life? Hence it is written in the Song of Songs: "His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me." Since therefore our Redeemer had already passed beyond the corruption of the present life, rightly the angel who had come to announce his eternal life was sitting on the right.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And entering into the sepulchre,.... For the sepulchres of the Jews were made so large, that persons might go into them: the rule for making them is this (k); "he that sells ground to his neighbour to make a burying place, or that receives of his neighbour to make a burying place, must make the inside of the cave four cubits by six, and open in it eight graves; three here, and three there, and two over against them: and the graves must be four cubits long, and seven high, and six broad. R.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

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

We may well believe that it required great courage to do this. To visit the grave in the dim twilight of an eastern day-break, would try most women, under any circumstances. But to visit the grave of one who had been put to death as a common malefactor, and to rise early to show honor to one whom their nation had despised, this was a mighty boldness indeed. Yet these are the kind of acts which show the difference between weak faith and strong faith — between weak feeling and strong feeling towards Christ.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
εἰσελθοῦσαι	eiselthousai	having entered	G1525 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
μνημεῖον	mnēmeion	tomb	G3419 →
εἶδον	eidon	they saw	G1492 →
νεανίσκον	neaniskon	a young man	G3495 →
καθήμενον	kathēmenon	sitting	G2521 →
ἐν	en	on	G1722 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
δεξιοῖς	dexiois	right	G1188 →
περιβεβλημένον	peribeblēmenon	having clothed himself in	G4016 →
στολὴν	stolēn	a robe	G4749 →
λευκὴν	leukēn	white	G3022 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐξεθαμβήθησαν.	exethambēthēsan	they were greatly amazed.	G1568 →

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

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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
Matthew 28:3
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
leads to
- Acts 1:10
  They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
- Mark 9:3
  His clothes became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them.
- Revelation 18:1
  After this I saw another angel descending from heaven with great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his glory.
- John 20:12
  and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.
- Revelation 3:4–5
  But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.
Through
John 20:8
Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in. And he saw and believed.
leads to
- John 20:25
  So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in His hands, and put my finger where the nails have been, and put…
- John 1:50
  Jesus said to him, “Do you believe just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.”
- John 20:4
  The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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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