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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 23:44-49

In these verses we have three things:? I. Christ's dying magnified by the prodigies that attended it: only two are here mentioned, which we had an account of before. 1. The darkening of the sun at noon-day. It was now about the sixth hour, that is, according to our computation, twelve o?clock at noon; and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. The sun was eclipsed and the air exceedingly clouded at the same time, both which concurred to this thick darkness, which... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 23:50-56

We have here an account of Christ's burial; for he must be brought not only to death, but to the dust of death (Ps. 22:15), according to the sentence (Gen. 3:19), To the dust thou shalt return. Observe, I. Who buried him. His acquaintance stood afar off; they had neither money to bear the charge nor courage to bear the odium of burying him decently; but God raised up one that had both, a man named Joseph, Luke 23:50. His character is that he was a good man and a just, a man of unspotted... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 23:44-49

23:44-49 By this time it was about midday, and there was darkness over the whole land until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the light of the sun failed. And the veil of the Temple was rent in the midst. When Jesus had cried with a great voice, he said, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." When he had said this he breathed his last. When the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God. "Truly," he said, "this was a good man." All the crowds, who had come together to see the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 23:50-56

23:50-56 Look you--there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Sanhedrin, a good and a just man. He had not consented to their counsel and their action. He came from Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, and he lived in expectation of the kingdom of God. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. He took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a rockhewn tomb where no one had ever yet been laid. It was the day of preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. The women, who had... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:44

And it was about the sixth hour ,.... Or twelve o'clock at noon; and so the Ethiopic version, when it was noon; See Gill on Matthew 27:45 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:45

And the sun was darkened ,.... There was an eclipse of it, which was preternatural, it being now full moon, and lasted three hours, and so total, as to darken the whole earth; and now was the prophecy in Amos 8:9 literally fulfilled: and the vail of the temple was rent in the midst. The Persic version renders it, "the gate of the temple"; and so the Syriac version, "the face of the gate of the temple"; See Gill on Matthew 27:51 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:46

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice ,.... A second time; for at the first loud cry, he uttered these words, "Eli, Eli, lama, sabachthani"; and at the second what follows; see Matthew 27:46 . See Gill on Matthew 27:47 . See Gill on Matthew 27:48 . See Gill on Matthew 27:49 . See Gill on Matthew 27:50 . he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit ; not the Holy Spirit, nor his divine nature, but his human soul: for that he had a reasonable soul, as well as a true... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:47

Now when the centurion saw what was done ,.... The eclipse of the sun, the darkness upon the land, the earthquake, the rocks rent, and Jesus expire in so uncommon a manner: he glorified God ; by confessing that Christ was the Son of God, and declaring him an innocent person: saying, certainly, this was a righteous man ; clear of the charges exhibited against him, and has suffered wrongfully; and this he concluded from those unusual appearances, and which he considered as tokens of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:48

And all the people that came together to that sight ,.... To see the execution of Jesus; and some of them might be his inveterate enemies, and came to insult him, and did insult him; many of these, though not every individual of them: beholding the things which were done ; the eclipse, earthquake, &c.; smote their breasts ; as conscious of guilt, and as fearing some dreadful judgment would fall upon them, and their nation, for this sin of crucifying Christ. The Persic version... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:49

And all his acquaintance ,.... That were related to him in a natural, or in a spiritual sense, or both, as his own mother, and beloved disciple John, who were both present, John 19:26 or those that were known unto him, and familiar with him, who attended on his ministry, and often conversed, and were intimately acquainted with him: and the women that followed him from Galilee ; among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Joses, and Salome the mother of Zebedee's... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 23:44-49

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 23:50-56

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 23:44-49

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 23:50-56

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:44

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:45

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:46

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:47

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:48

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:49

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