50 [a]Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up the ghost.

51 [b]And behold, (A)the [c]veil of the Temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the stones were cloven.

52 And the [d]graves did open themselves, and many bodies of the Saints, which slept, arose,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:50 Christ after he had overcome other enemies, at length provoked and setteth upon death itself.
  2. Matthew 27:51 Christ, when he is dead, showeth himself to be God almighty, even his enemies confessing the same.
  3. Matthew 27:51 Which divided the holiest of all.
  4. Matthew 27:52 That is to say, the stones clave asunder, and the graves did open themselves, to show by this token, that death was overcome: and the resurrection of the dead followed the resurrection of Christ, as appeareth by the next verse following.

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