Matthew 28:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.

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  • Ps 2:11 : 11 Serve Yahweh with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
  • Mark 16:8 : 8 They went out,{TR adds "quickly"} and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
  • Luke 24:36-41 : 36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you." 37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
  • John 16:20 : 20 Most assuredly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
  • John 16:22 : 22 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
  • John 20:20-21 : 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."
  • Ezra 3:12-13 : 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

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  • Mark 16:2-8
    7 verses
    88%

    2Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

    3They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"

    4for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back.

    5Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.

    6He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

    7But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"

    8They went out,{TR adds "quickly"} and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.

  • Matt 28:4-7
    4 verses
    86%

    4For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

    5The angel answered the women, "Don't be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

    6He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.

    7Go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you."

  • Matt 28:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Rejoice!" They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

    10Then Jesus said to them, "Don't be afraid. Go tell my brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me."

    11Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.

  • John 20:1-4
    4 verses
    78%

    1Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

    2Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"

    3Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.

    4They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

  • Luke 24:1-6
    6 verses
    78%

    1But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

    2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

    3They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body.

    4It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

    5Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

    6He isn't here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,

  • Luke 24:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8They remembered his words,

    9returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

  • Matt 28:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

    2Behold, 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.

  • Mark 16:10
    76%

    10She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

  • John 20:8-10
    3 verses
    75%

    8So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

    9For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

    10So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

  • Luke 24:12
    74%

    12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.

  • Matt 27:60
    74%

    60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

  • Luke 24:33
    74%

    33They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

  • Matt 14:12
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    12His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.

  • Luke 24:52
    73%

    52They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

  • John 20:18
    73%

    18Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

  • Luke 24:22-24
    3 verses
    73%

    22Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

    23and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

    24Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see him."

  • John 20:13
    73%

    13They told her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him."

  • Matt 28:13
    73%

    13saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

  • Luke 24:37
    73%

    37But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

  • Matt 28:16
    72%

    16But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.

  • Matt 27:66
    72%

    66So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

  • John 2:22
    72%

    22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

  • Matt 27:64
    71%

    64Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."

  • Mark 6:29
    71%

    29When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

  • Mark 14:28
    71%

    28However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."