Wait at the Crucified's Deathbed

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Timing: Some time, then, between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Joseph of Arimathæa went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus. The governor was surprised, not at the request, but at hearing that Jesus was dead already (), and, to assure himself of the fact, sent to inquire of the centurion on duty at the crosses. Somewhere about the same time, probably a little later in the “evening,” but still before 6 p.m., the Jews, i.e. the Sanhedrin leaders, came to Pilate with a request that the death of the three crucified might be hastened by their legs being broken, in order that their bodies hanging on the crosses might not pollute the very sacred day which followed. (It would be the sabbath, and the day of the Passover.)

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And rested the sabbath day according to the commandment. “It was the last sabbath of the old covenant. It was scrupulously respected” (Godet).

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scribes had begged that the closing act of the death by crucifixion, that called the crucifragium—the smiting or breaking of the legs—might be hastened and the corpses removed, so that no offence to decency might be felt on the high day, “the double sabbath,” at hand.

WHY WAIT Why should he now risk his reputation, it may be his life, by an acknowledgment which he had withheld in his earlier days? Every dictate of worldly wisdom bade him be wholly silent. What do we read in ?

H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., St Luke, vol. 2, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 247.

Place: unusual died quickly, and in garden like rich Uzziah ...St. John adds, “as the manner of the Jews is to bury,” probably marking the Jewish custom of embalming and thus preserving the body, as contrasted with burning, which was the Roman usage. And laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone. St. John tells us the sepulchre was in a garden.

not in contact w corruption = used tomb!

H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., St Luke, vol. 2, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 245.

H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., St Luke, vol. 2, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 244–245.

Jesus announced kingdom of God, Simeon and Anna looking for… Now Joseph of A in Christ = 4:21 “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing” This is a PERFECT PASSIVE INDICATIVE. It speaks of the eschatological fulfillment of the promise of the coming of the Kingdom of God, which was now present in Jesus. What a shocking statement! The Kingdom of God is the focus of Jesus’ preaching. It is the reign of God in men’s hearts now that will one day be consummated over all the earth as it is in heaven (cf. ). It is both here and now and yet future!

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It is significant that the women were the last at the cross and the first at the tomb on Easter morning.

Imagine showing up for friend or families execution…ie your own excommunication… i am involved and care! 23:49. Family and friends would usually be present at an execution; only the male disciples would be in danger as potential revolutionaries. No one stood too close to the cross, because that could obstruct the view; most crosses were lower to the ground than many modern pictures depict. To Palestinian Jews, the fact that these women accompanied Jesus’ group of disciples could have been scandalous.

Robert James Utley, The Gospel according to Luke, vol. Volume 3A, Study Guide Commentary Series (Marshall, TX: Bible Lessons International, 2004), .

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23:53 wrapped it in a linen cloth A burial shroud, part of the funerary customs of Jews in the first century. After the body of a person had decomposed, the bones would be collected and placed in an ossuary.

Embalming practices 23:54–56. Because bodies decomposed rapidly, mourners were allowed to anoint, wash and wrap the body in its shrouds even on the sabbath. More elaborate arrangements that these loyal women disciples wish to bestow on Jesus, however, might wait until the sabbath (sundown Friday evening to sundown Saturday evening) has passed.

Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993), .

Craig S. Keener, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993), .

who is there, woem and Only two groups remain—the soldiers, who must watch until the crucified are dead, and their bodies are removed; and “the acquaintance of Jesus, and the women who had followed him from Galilee, far off

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the Nicodemus of whom we read at the beginning of the ministry (John 3), who brings with him a princely offering of myrrh and aloes. The reverent and loving hands thus joined together wrap the body (ver. 53) in linen, and hastily and partially embalm it

H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., St Luke, vol. 2, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 246.

WHAT GRAVE BURIAL- MEANS TO CHRIST, DISCIPLES, WORLD THAT CRUCIFIED HIM

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his own assurance given to Mary on the resurrection-day (John 20:17), “I am not yet ascended to my Father.” The place and condition into which he passed, in dying, were intermediate between the life on earth and the life in glory. He was not then, as the Man Jesus, in the glory of the Father

Paradise? Lord, remember me,” he had said, “when thou comest into thy kingdom.” “To-day,” was the reply, “shalt thou be with me in Paradise.” Paradise, then, received the soul of Christ. Thither he bore with him the one who, in penitence and faith, had cast himself on his mercy. And Paradise meant the region in the under-world of the dead set apart for the faithful as their rest until the resurrection—a blessedness real, though incomplete; a garden with the tree of life in it, but not the full enjoyment of the beatific vision. This is the meaning of the clause in the Apostles’ Creed, “He descended into hell,” i.e. into Hades, the state of the dead

His disciples: who weep and lament whilst the world is rejoicing—the sorrow-stricken, orphaned company of disciples? The last to leave the place where the body of Jesus was laid, as the first to hasten to the tomb when the sabbath is past, are the holy women (vers. 55, 56). We see them on Friday evening watching the tomb, and observing how the lifeless form was attended to, and then hastening into the city, that they may make ready the spices

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Their love is stronger than their faith.

Gloomy last old cov sabbath - longing for new =the gloom of a despair. “They rested on the sabbath; but” (the first word of the twenty-fourth chapter should be “but” rather than “now”); but the running of the spirit, the movement of the love, is only towards the garden and its sepulchre. Is it not the type of Church, of Christian, wanting the power of the Holy Ghost? Work for Christ, loyal but cheerless, without sight of his glory, or waiting for his advent—this is suggested by the preparation

H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., St Luke, vol. 2, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 247–248.

c) the world that crucified Is it not strange that what was absent from faith as a hope was present to unbelief as a fear? Those who had crucified the Lord have their memory wonderfully quickened. They recall () some words which he uttered nearly three years before, about a temple which he would raise in three days, and their dread gives a force to these words. Sabbath though it be, the chief priests and Pharisees seek an audience of Pilate, and beg him to “make the sepulchre sure until the third day

Sabbath - rest w no peace, On that sabbath the world religious and irreligious holds its rest. It cannot altogether forget; but it holds its Paschal feasts, and complies with all the etiquette of these feasts, as if there were no Calvary, as if no Jesus had lived and died… forget Sabbath and soon froget God… keeep it and ...

H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., St Luke, vol. 2, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 248.

H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., St Luke, vol. 2, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 248.

H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., St Luke, vol. 2, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 248.