Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Matthew 27:61
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulcher.
61. the other Mary ] The mother of James the less and Joses (Mar 15:47).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 61. Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary] The mother of James and Joses, Mt 27:56. The mother of our Lord had probably, by this time, been taken home to the house of John. See Joh 19:26-27.
Sitting over against the sepulchre.] These holy women, filled with that love to their Lord which death cannot destroy, cleaved to him in life, and in death were not divided. They came to the grave to see the end, and overwhelmed with sorrow and anguish, sat down to mourn.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
61. And there was Mary Magdalene,and the other Mary“the mother of James and Joses,”mentioned before (Mt 27:56).
sitting over against thesepulchre(See on Mr 16:1).
The Sepulchre Guarded (Mt27:62-66).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary,…. The wife of Cleophas, and the mother of James and of Joses:
sitting over against the sepulchre; observing where the body of Christ was put, and how it was laid; for they intended to prepare spices and ointments to anoint it with; and were mourning for the death of Christ: for sitting was a mourning posture, which now they were allowed, the body being taken down from the cross, and interred by leave of the governor; for, for one that died as a malefactor, they might not use the outward signs of mourning: the canon is this w; for such
“they do not mourn, but they grieve; and there is no grieving but in the heart:”
hence these women before stood, Joh 19:25, but now they sat.
w Misn. Sarhedrin, c. 6. sect. 4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
61. And Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, were there. Matthew and Mark relate only that the women looked at what was done, and marked the place where the body was laid. But Luke states, at the same time, their resolution, which was, that they returned to the city, and prepared spices and ointments, that two days afterwards they might render due honor to the burial. Hence we learn that their minds were filled with a better odor, which the Lord breathed into his death, that he might bring them to his grave, and exalt them higher.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(61) And there was Mary Magdalene.The words imply that they remained by the cross while the body was taken down, and watched its entombment: then returning to the house where they lodged, they prepared their spices and ointment before the Sabbath began, for a more complete embalmment, so that they might be ready by the earliest hour of dawn on the first day of the week (Luk. 23:56).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
61. Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting After Joseph and all others are gone, they may be seen sitting. Their heads are bowed with grief and their eyes are fixed on the tomb. Until the sun falls and the Sabbath shades are upon them, their motionless forms might be descried drooping, yet fixed, as if statues hewn out from the same rock as the sepulchre they watched.
Saturday, the Sabbath Eve.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.’
Meanwhile two of the women, probably delegated by the others, had followed the burial party, and were now sat down opposite the tomb. ‘The other Mary’ is probably the mother of James and Joses. Thus the care and love of the women is watching over their dead Master from the cross to the tomb (Mat 27:56; Mat 27:61). Mary had brought Him into the world. Marys would care for His body as well as they could as they saw Him out of the world. It was all that they could do.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Mat 27:61 ] present at the burial.
.] see Mat 27:56 . The article is wanting only in A D*, and should be maintained, Wieseler ( Chronol. Synops . p. 427) notwithstanding. Its omission in the case of A may be traced to the reading , which this MS. has at Mar 15:47 . Wieseler approves of this reading, and holds the Mary of our text to be the wife or daughter of Joseph of Arimathea. But see remark on Mar 15:47 .
, . . .] unoccupied, absorbed in grief; comp. Ngelsbach on Hom. Il . i. 134.
Fuente: Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer’s New Testament Commentary
61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Ver. 61. And there was Mary Magdalene ] Carefully watching where they laid the Lord’s body, that they might not leave off their kindness to him living or dead, as she said of Boaz,Rth 2:20Rth 2:20 . Heavy they were as heart could hold: yet not hindered thereby from doing their duty to Christ. So Daniel, though sick, yet did the king’s business. Even sorrow for sin, if it so exceed as to disable us for duty, is a sinful sorrow, and must be sorrowed for.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
61. ] Luke mentions more generally the women who came with Him from Galilee ; and specifies that they prepared spices and ointments , and rested the sabbath-day according to the commandment.
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
Mat 27:61 . , etc., but, in contrast to Joseph, there was there Mary, the woman of Magdala, also the other Mary, sitting in front of the tomb. here, as in Mat 23:27 ; Mat 23:29 , used of a place of burial, not of the act of burial. The word is peculiar to Mt. in the N. T.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
Mary . . . Mary. See App-100.
sepulchre. Greek. taphos = burying-place. Not the same -word as in Mat 27:60.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
61.] Luke mentions more generally the women who came with Him from Galilee; and specifies that they prepared spices and ointments, and rested the sabbath-day according to the commandment.
Fuente: The Greek Testament
Mat 27:61. , sitting) A holy and salutary delay.[1219]
[1219] , and the other) of whom Mat 27:56 speaks.-V. g.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
other Mary
Supposed to be Mary the mother of James and Joses.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Mary Magdalene: Mat 27:56
Reciprocal: Mat 28:1 – Mary Magdalene Mar 15:40 – Mary the Mar 15:47 – General Luk 23:49 – the women Luk 23:55 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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The other Mary was the mother of Jesus (verse 56). These women found a seat opposite where Jesus was buried and “beheld where he was laid” (Mar 15:47), which explains their concern about the stone when they were coming the day after the sabbath with spices, intending to anoint his body (Mar 16:1-3).
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Mat 27:61. Was there, at the tomb.
The other Mary. The mother of Joses (Mar 15:47), already mentioned in Mat 27:56. According to Luke the female disciples from Galilee all beheld the sepulchre, and returned to prepare spices and ointments, resting on the Sabbath, which began that evening. These two not only saw where He was laid (Mark) but lingered there, sitting over against the sepulchre, as the evening came on.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Verse 61
The other Mary; the mother of James and Joses.
Fuente: Abbott’s Illustrated New Testament
The Romans did not permit friends to mourn the deaths of criminals they executed. These women then witnessed Jesus’ burial along with Joseph and Nicodemus (cf. 1Co 15:4). Matthew’s notation of what they saw prepares for Mat 28:1.