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Quotes & Notes on:
Matthew 21:9
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John Wesley's Notes:
(No comment on this verse).
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* with. Ezr 3:12,13; Ps 2:11; Mr 16:8; Lu 24:36-41; Joh 16:20; 20:20,21
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
They departed quickly from the sepulchre]
At the desire of the angel they went into the tomb, to have the fullest
certainty of the resurrection.
Fear and great joy] Fear, produced by the appearance of this glorious
messenger of God; and great joy occasioned by the glad tidings of the
resurrection of their Lord and Master. At the mention of unexpected good
news, fear and joy are generally intermingled.
----Vix sum apud me, ita animus commotus est metu,
Spe, gaudio, mirando hoc tanto, tam repentino bono.
TERANT. Andr. v. 945.
"I am almost beside myself, my mind is so agitated with fear, hope, and
joy, at this unexpected good news."
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Family Bible Notes:
(No comment on this verse).
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
(No comment on this verse).
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People's New Testament Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
With fear and great joy (meta phobou kai charas megalęs). A
touch of life was this as the excited women ran quickly (tachu edramon)
as they had been told "to bring his disciples word" (apaggeilai tois
mathętais autou). They had the greatest piece of news that it was
possible to have. Mark calls it fear and ecstasy. Anything seemed
possible now. Mark even says that at first they told no one anything for
they were afraid (Mr 16:9), the tragic close of the text of Mark in
Aleph and B, our two oldest manuscripts. But these mingled emotions of
ecstasy and dread need cause no surprise when all things are
considered..
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Albert Barnes' Commentary:
And they departed quickly. Joyful at the news, and wishing to impart it
to all, they fled to find the disciples, and tell them that the Lord was
risen.
With fear and great joy. Fear
(1) at the wonderful scenes which they had witnessed--the stone rolled
away, and the presence of an angel;
(2) a confused state of mind, apprehensive, perhaps, that it might not
after all be true. The news was too good to be credited at once. Yet
they had sufficient belief in it to fill them with great and unexpected
joy. Perhaps no language could better express the state of their
minds--the mingled awe and rejoicing--than that which is here used.
And did run, etc. They ran to announce what they had seen to the
disciples. The city, where the disciples were, was half a mile or more
from the place.
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown: And
they departed quickly--Mark (Mr 16:8) says "they fled."
from the sepulchre with fear and great joy--How natural this combination
of feelings! See on a similar statement of Mr 16:11.
and did run to bring his disciples word--"Neither said they anything to
any man [by the way]; for they were afraid" (Mr 16:8).
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Spurgeon Commentary on
Matthew:
That seems a strange mixture, fear and great joy, awe and delight,
doubt and faith; yet the joy was greater than the fear. It was not joy
and great fear, but “fear and great joy.” Have we never had that mixture
— drops of grief, like April showers, and peace and joy, like sunlight
from heaven, making a glorious rainbow reminding us of God’s covenant of
peace? A holy fear, mingled with great joy, is one of the sweetest
compounds we can bring to God’s altar; such were the spices these holy
women took
away from Christ’s sepulchre. Fear and joy would both make them run to
bring his disciples word. Either of these emotions gives speed to the
feet; but when “fear and great joy” are combined, running is the only
pace that records with the messengers’ feelings.
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William Burkitt's Notes:
Observe here, What haste and speed these
holy women make to carry the news of Christ's resurrection to the
apostles; such as find and feel their hearts grieved for the absence and
want of Christ, will be very ready to comfort such as are in the same
condition. O how glad are these holy women to carry the good news of
their Lord's resurrection to the heart-broken disciples!
Observe, 2. How these holy women hastened, in obedience to the angel's
command, to tell the disciples to meet with Christ in the way. Such as
obey the directions of God's ministers, seeking Christ in his own way
and means, shall find him to their comfort sooner than they expected.
These holy women find Christ before they looked for him: as they went to
tell his disciples, Jesus met them. O happy women, while they were
weeping for a dead Christ, they find a living Jesus.
Observe, 3. The affectionate and loving title which Christ puts upon his
disciples: Tell my brethren. He might have said, "Go tell those apostate
apostles, that cowardly left me in my danger, that durst not own me in
the high priest's hall, that durst not come within the shadow of my
cross, nor within the sight of my sepulchre." Not a word of this, by way
of upbraiding them for their late shameful cowardice, but all words of
kindness: Go tell my brethren.
Where note, That Christ calls his disciples brethren after his
resurrection and exaltation, as he had done before in his state of
humiliation, to show the continuance of his former affection to them,
and that the change of his condition had wrought no change in his
affection to his despised members: but those that were his brethren
before, in the time of his abasement, are so still after his exaltation
and advancement.
Observe lastly, The place where Christ chooses to meet with and speak to
his disciples, not in Jerusalem, but in Galilee; I go before them into
Galilee, there they shall see me. Jerusalem was now a forsaken place, a
people abandoned to destruction; Christ would not show himself openly to
them, but Galilee was a place where Christ's ministry was more
acceptable. Such places wherein Christ is most welcome to preach, shall
be most honoured with his presence. In Galilee they shall see me.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).
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The Fourfold Gospel:
And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy.
Fear, because of the heavenly messengers; joy, because of their message.
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