"Coming down from heaven" parallels the wording of Matthew 3:16, the climax of the baptism scene. That an angel appears again at the end of the story links it back to the opening chapters. "Angels of the lord" play an important role in the infancy narrative, appearing at Matthew 1:20, 1:24, 2:13 and 2:19. There are many parallels in this verse to earlier events in Matthew. Francis Beare sees this as a haggadic expansion upon Mark, and argues that no source beyond Mark is needed to explain where this passage originates. It also adds "a great earthquake" ( Greek: σεισμος εγενετο μεγας, seismos egeneto megas) and a dramatic descent from heaven. Beginning with "behold" shows that something important is about to follow. The verse strives to make the events as dramatic as possible. In Mark it is implied that the "young man" is an angel or something similar, but this verse makes this explicit. Scholars accept that this verse is a reworking of Mark 16:5. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as:īehold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it. In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as:Īnd, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads: Mary Magdalene and " the other Mary" were approaching Jesus' tomb after the crucifixion, when an earthquake occurred and an angel appeared. This verse is part of the resurrection narrative. Matthew 28:2 is the second verse of the twenty-eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Benjamin West's The Angel at the Tomb of Christ.
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