Matthew 28:2 BSB — MannaFest

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.

KJV

And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

And, behold, there was a great earthquake. Our Lord, Son at once of God and man, according to His twofold nature of Godhead and of flesh, gives a sign one while of His greatness, another while of His lowliness. Thus, though now it was man who was crucified, and man who was buried, yet the things that were done around show the Son of God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

An angel of the Lord had rolled away the stone and sat upon it - St. Luke and St. John speak of two angels that appeared: but it seems as if only one of them had appeared sitting on the stone without the sepulchre, and then going into it, was seen with another angel, sitting, one where the head, the other where the feet of the body had lain.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It struck a terror upon them, to see themselves baffled in that which was their business here. They were posted here, to keep a dead man in his grave --as easy a piece of service surely as was ever assigned them, and yet it proves too hard for them.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A great earthquake - Σεισμος, a shaking or commotion of any kind: probably the word means no more than the confusion caused among the guards by the angel’s appearance. All this had taken place before the women reached the sepulchre.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἰδοὺ	idou	behold	G2400 →
σεισμὸς	seismos	an earthquake	G4578 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	there was	G1096 →
μέγας·	megas	great;	G3173 →
ἄγγελος	angelos	an angel	G32 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
κυρίου	kuriou	of [the] Lord	G2962 →
καταβὰς	katabas	having descended	G2597 →
ἐξ	ex	out of	G1537 →
οὐρανοῦ	ouranou	heaven	G3772 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
προσελθὼν	proselthōn	having come	G4334 →
ἀπεκύλισεν	apekulisen	he rolled away	G617 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
λίθον	lithon	stone	G3037 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐκάθητο	ekathēto	he was sitting	G2521 →
ἐπάνω	epanō	upon	G1883 →
αὐτοῦ.	autou	it.	G846 →

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
Acts 16:26
Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.
leads to
- Acts 4:31
  After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
- Acts 5:19
  But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,
- Acts 12:7
  Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his…
- Acts 12:10
  They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one…
- Psalms 146:7
  He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
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.
- John 19:25
  Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.