Luke 23:49

And the women also which came with him from Galilee,.... See Gill on Luk 23:49.

followed after; Joseph; and those that were with him, when they carried the body of Jesus, in order to inter it:

and beheld, the sepulchre; took notice of it, what an one it was, whereabout it stood in the garden, that they might know, and find it again:

and how his body was laid; in what position, form, and order; and observed that it was only wrapped in linen, and not anointed, or embalmed.

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Luk 23:49 . οἱ γνωστοὶ , His acquaintances, Galileans mostly, who stood till the end, but far away. Mt. and Mk. do not mention this. No word of the eleven. καὶ γυναῖκες : warm-hearted Galileans they too, and women , therefore bolder where the heart was concerned; nearer presumably, therefore “seeing” predicted of them specially ( ὁρῶσαι ). The men stood at a safe distance, the women cared more for seeing than for safety .

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Christ gathereth together, and defendeth his little flock in the midst of the tormentors.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

(49) All his acquaintance.—This is the only passage in which the word is used. St. Luke apparently employs it as intermediate between the spectators and the avowed disciples. Such may have been Simon, or Lazarus, of Bethany, or the rulers who believed yet did hot confess, or the owners of the ass and of the colt, or the proprietor of the house in which the Passover had been eaten.

The women that had followed him from Galilee.—St. Luke does not name them as St. Matthew and St. Mark do, probably because in Luk_8:2-3, he had already given the names of the most prominent among them.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

49. And all his acquaintance] Rather, But. Peculiar to St Luke. Comp. Luk_2:44.

stood afar of beholding these things] The word used is not theo-rountes, as in Luk_23:35. There is, perhaps, in the “afar off,” a sad allusion to Psa_38:11, “My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar oft.” St Luke omits the breaking of the legs of the robbers, and the piercing of the side of Jesus by the soldiers, which are narrated in Joh_19:31-37.

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49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

Ver. 49. See Mat 27:55.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Stood afar off. Disciples open and secret, friends and acquaintances among the Jerusalem citizens and Galihaean pilgrims (with the exception of the little group of which Mary and John were the centre till the dying Lord bade them leave him), all alike lacked courage and devotion, all feared to stand by their Master and Friend at that awful season. He trod the winepress alone. (see Isa_63:3) None possessed the heroic faith which through the sombre cloud of seeming failure could see the true glory of the Sun of Righteousness, which so soon was to arise and shine.

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49. εἱστήκεισαν δέ. The multitudes began to return (ὑπέστρεφον), but the few who loved Him stayed on the spot, though they dared not to approach very near.

πάντες οἱ γνωστοὶ αὐτῷ. Peculiar to St Luke. Comp. Luk 2:44.

ἀπὸ μακρόθεν. See on Luk 16:23.

ὁρῶσαι. The word used is not θεωροῦντες, as in Luk 23:35. There is, perhaps, in the “afar off,” a sad allusion to Psa 38:11, “My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.” St Luke omits the breaking of the legs of the robbers, and the piercing of the side of Jesus by the soldiers, which are narrated in Joh 19:31-37.

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49.] See on Matt. and Mark.

Henry Alford, The Greek Testament (1849–1861) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

49. ἱστήκεισαν δὲ πάντες οἱ γυωστοὶ αὐτῷ. “But (not “And,” as AV. RV.), in contrast to the crowds who ὑπέστρεφον (Lk.’s favourite word), the faithful few remained.” Lk. alone mentions this fact: the Apostles perhaps are included. Comp. ἐμάκρυνας τοὺς γυωστούς μου ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ (Ps. 87:9); οἱ ἔγγιστά μου μακρόθενἔστησαν (37:12).

For this use of γυωστός comp. 2:44. In the common signification of “known.” γνωστός is freq. in Acts: elsewhere in N.T. rare.

γυναῖκες. Mt. and Mk. name Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of James and Joses and Salome the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

ὁρῶσαι ταῦτα. These do not gaze as at a spectacle. The change of verb from θεωρήσαντες (ver. 48) is ignored in Vulg. Tyn. Gen. Rhem. AV., while Cov. Cran. RV. distinguish. Although feminine, because of the nearest substantive, ὁρῶσαι belongs to γνωσταό as well as to γυναῖκες.

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That followed [συνακολυθουσαι] . Lit., followed with [συν] . So Rev. See on Mt 27:55.

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