Mark 15:42 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, ”

• Mark 15:42 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The even - The time after three o’clock in the afternoon. The Preparation ... - The following day was to be a day of special solemnity, called the “great day” of the feast. More than ordinary...

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• Mark 15:42 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Burial of Jesus. Deuteronomy 21:23 enjoined the burial of dead criminals before nightfall ( cf. Josephus, Wars, IV, v.2). The day of the Crucifixion being the preparation for the Sabbath,...

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• Mark 15:42 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  when the even was come evening already having come. Compare Matthew 27:57 . the preparation : i.e. the 14th of Nisan, the day before the Passover (on the 15th), which took place on the 14th at...

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• Mark 15:42 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, The day before the Sabbath - What we would call Friday evening. As the law of Moses had ordered th...

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• Mark 15:42 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 27:51-56 ; and at John 19:31-42 .

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• Mark 15:42 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Trial Before Pilate. The Crucifixion 1-15. Trial before Pilate ( Matthew 27:1 ; Matthew 27:11 ; Luke 23:1 ; Luke 23:13 ; John 18:28 ). See on Mt and Jn. For the trial before Herod see on...

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• Mark 15:42 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (39-47) See Notes on Matthew 27:54-61 .

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• Mark 15:42 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a King upon His Cross Mark 15:22-47 Our Lord refused to drink the potion prepared by the women of Jerusalem, in order to stupefy those who were crucified and so deaden the sense of pain, becaus...

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• Mark 15:42 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This chapter is one of those that needs little explanation and must ever be read in awe and reverence. Pilate represented the Roman empire, which attempted to secure itself by its ordinary methods of...

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• Mark 15:42 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (42) And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation; that is, the day before the sabbath, (43) Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God...

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• Mark 15:42 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And now when the even was come ,.... "Of the preparation", as the Syriac version reads; or "the night of the sixth day":, as the Persic version renders it, "Friday" night: because it was the prepa...

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• Mark 15:42 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, Ver. 42. The day before the sabbath ] Their preparation to the sabbath began at three o'clock...

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• Mark 15:42 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And now , &c. Και ηδη οψιας γενομενης, And the evening being now come. The word οψιας, answering to evening , is used with some latitude in Scripture. The Jews spoke of two evenings, (see not...

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• Mark 15:42 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Burial of Christ; The Women at the Sepulchre.       42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the d...

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• Mark 15:42 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 42-47. The circumstances of our Saviour's honourable burial, as related by this and the other evangelists, are gathered together and opened in our notes on Matthew 27:57-66 . See Poole on "...

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• Mark 15:42 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Laying Jesus To Rest (15:40-47). The women who had ministered to Jesus and His disciples were gathered at the cross. It is impossible to imagine the feelings in their hearts as they saw the figure...

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• Mark 15:42 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Mark 15:43 . Went in boldly .— Took courage and went in . MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Mark 15:42-47 (PARALLELS: Matthew 27:57-61 ; Luke 23:50-56 .)...

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• Mark 15:42 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Concerning the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall read in three portions of the New Testament. First, in the Gospel according to Mark, the fifteenth chapter, beginning at the thirty-fourth vers...

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• Mark 15:42 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Mark 15:1 . Straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. Συνεδριν, the whole sanhedrim, consisting of seventy, but which must...

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• Mark 15:42 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor. The crisis in Joseph’s life The record of spiritual progress through many years is given here. Long looking for the promised Saviour, almost conv...

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• Mark 15:42 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Mark 15:1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and d...

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• Mark 15:42 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, he day before the Sabbath,

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• Mark 15:42 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  John 19:38 ; Luke 23:50-54 ; Matthew 27:57 ; Matthew 27:62

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• Mark 15:42 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Because it was the day before the Sabbath — And the bodies might not hang on the Sabbath day: therefore they were in haste to have them taken down.

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