[2] 1 Corinthians xv. 3, 4; Acts xiii. 28, 29; Deuteronomy xxi. 22, 23; John xix. 31-39; Luke xxxiii. 50-54; Mark xv. 42-46; Matthew xxvii. 57-60.
[3] It does not appear that there was a formal meeting of the Sanhedrim, and the act may have proceeded from the more violent members of it. The time may have been during their Sabbath, or at its close, which would have been in season. Lange, Vol. III., p. 343; Farrar, c. 62.
[4] Matthew xxviii. 15; Dialogue, c. 108.
[5] Mary, the mother of James, Salome, Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and other women from Galilee who beheld the sepulchre and where he was laid. They may not have come all at the same time, but in different companies. Matthew xvii. 55, 56, and xxviii, 1-7; Mark xv. 40, 41, 47, and xvi. 1-8; Luke xxiii. 49, 55, 56, and xxiv. 1-10; John xx. 1; Lange, Vol. III., pp. 362, 368.
[6] The Forty Days after Our Lord’s Resurrection, by Rev. William Hanna, LL.D., p. 53.
[7] The words “as they went to tell his disciples,” in our common version, are wanting in the Sinaitic and Vatican manuscripts. Their omission in the Revised Version removes a difficulty. The true text does not state when it was, that Jesus met them.
[8] Lange, Vol. III., p. 383.
[9] All attempts to identify this with certainty, out of the numerous villages in the vicinity of Jerusalem, have failed. See Lange, Vol. III.; Robinson, Vol. III., pp. 146-150; Barnes’ Notes, Vol. II., p. 107.
[10] 1 Corinthians xv. 6; Matthew xxviii. 7, 10, 16; Mark xvi. 7, 15, 18; Lange, Vol. III., p. 411; Farrar, c. 62; Hanna’s Forty Days, c. 8, p. 185; c. 9, p. 229; Geikie, c. 64.