Mark 16:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Ver. 3,4. These were their thoughts as they were coming. Concerning the guard which they had set by Pilate's permission at the importunity of the Jewish priests and rulers, it is probable (the day before being the Jewish sabbath, in the observation of which the Jews were very strict) they had not heard, so were not solicitious as to them; but they knew of the stone rolled to the mouth of the sepulchre: but they were in vain solicitous; when they came they found the stone rolled away, Christ was risen before.

Mark 16:3

3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?