Mark 16:6 (WEB)
He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him!
Catechism · 1
“Again, it is the angels who "evangelize" by proclaiming the Good News of Christ's Incarnation and Resurrection.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 2:8-14; Mk 16:5-7.
Fathers and councils · 44
John Damascene
“And so also the angel of the resurrection said to the woman, Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which was crucified.” — editor's note: St. Mark xvi. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But go your way, tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see Him, as He said unto you.”” — editor's note: Mark xvi. 6, 7.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark
After the sadness of the sabbath, a happy day dawns upon them, which holds the chief place amongst days, for in it the chief light shines forth, and the Lord rises in triumph. Wherefore it is said: “And when the…
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For these religious women after the burial of the Lord, as long as it was lawful to work, that is, up to sunset, prepared ointment, as Luke says. And because they could not finish their work from the shortness of the…
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The women in this place run abroad with womanly devotion, for they do not bring Him faith as though He were alive, but ointments as to one dead; and they prepare the service of their grief for Him as buried, not the…
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For they do not understand the greatness and dignity of the wisdom of Christ. But they came according to the custom of the Jews to anoint the body of Christ, that it might remain sweet-smelling, and might not burst…
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But if we believe on Him who is dead, and are filled with the sweet smell of virtue, and seek the Lord with the fame of good works, we come to His sepulchre with spices. There follows: “And very early in the morning…
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What Luke expresses by “very early in the morning,” and John by “early when it was yet dark,” Mark must be understood to mean, when he says, “very early in the morning, at the rising of the sun,” that is, when the…
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By “very early in the morning,” he means what another Evangelist expresses by at the dawning [Luke 24:1, dilueulo]. But the dawn is the time between the darkness of night, and the brightness of day, in which the…
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As then the women shew the great fervency of their love, by coming very early in the morning to the sepulchre, as the history relates, according to the mystical sense an example is given to us, that with a shining…
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He says, On the first of the sabbaths, that is, on the first of the days of the week. For the days of the week are called sabbaths, and by the word “una” is meant “prima”.
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Or else, by this phrase is meant the first day from the day of sabbaths, or rests, which were kept on the sabbath. There follows: “And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the…
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Your breast was darkened, your eyes shut, and therefore ye did not before see the glory of the opened sepulchre. It goes on: “And they looked, and saw that the stone was rolled away.”
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Matthew shews clearly enough, that the stone was rolled away by an Angel. This rolling away of the stone means mystically the opening of the Christian Sacraments, which were held under the veil of the letter of the…
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Great indeed by its office rather than its size, for it can shut in and throw open the body of the Lord.
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But the women who came with spices see the Angels; because those minds who come to the Lord with their virtues, through holy desires, see the heavenly citizens. Wherefore it goes on: “And entering into the sepulchre,…
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Though Matthew says that the Angel was sitting on stone, whilst Mark relates that the women entering into the sepulchre saw a young man sitting, yet we need not wonder, for they afterwards saw sitting within the…
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Either let us suppose that Matthew was silent about that Angel, whom they saw on entering, whilst Mark said nothing of him, whom they say outside sitting on the stone, so that they saw two and heard separately from…
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But some say the women mentioned by Matthew were different from those in Mark. But Mary Magdalene was with all parties, from her burning zeal and ardent love.
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The women, then, entered the sepulchre, that being buried with Christ, they might rise again from the tomb with Christ. They see the young man, that is, they see the time of the Resurrection, for the Resurrection has…
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Now they saw a young man sitting on the right side, that is, on the south part of the place where the body was laid. For the body, which was lying on its back, and had its head to the west, must have had its right to…
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But what is meant by the left hand, but this present life, and what by the right, but everlasting life? Because then our Redeemer had already gone through the decay of this present life, fitly did the Angel, who had…
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Again, they saw a young man sitting on the right, because the Resurrection has nothing sinister in it. They also see him dressed in a long white robe; that robe is not from mortal fleece, but of living virtue,…
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Or else, he appeared covered with a white robe, because he announced the joys of our festivity, for the whiteness of the robe shews the splendour of our solemnity.
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The white robe is also true joy, now that the enemy is driven away, the kingdom won, the King of Peace sought for and found and never let go by us. This young man then shews an image of the Resurrection to them who…
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As though he had said, Let them fear, who love not the coming of the inhabitants of heaven; let them fear, who, weighed down with carnal desires, despair that they can ever attain to their company; but why should ye…
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For there is no fear in love. Why should they fear, who had found Him whom they sought?
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But let us hear what the Angel adds; “Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus means the Saviour, but at that time there may have been many a Jesus, not indeed really, but in name, therefore the place Nazareth is added,…
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For he does not blush at the Cross, for in it is the salvation of men, and the beginning of the Blessed.
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But the bitter root of the Cross has disappeared. The flower of life has burst forth with its fruits, that is, He who lay in death has risen in glory. Wherefore he adds, “He is risen; He is not here.”
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“He is not here,” is spoken of His carnal presence, for He was not absent from any place as to the presence of His majesty.
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As if he had said, Do ye wish to be certain of His Resurrection, he adds, “Behold the place where they laid Him.” This too was the reason why he had rolled away the stone, that he might shew them the place.
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But immortality is shewn to mortals as [debita, ap. Pseudo-Hier.] due to thankfulness, that we may understand what we were, and that we may know what we are to be. There follows: “But go your way, tell His disciples…
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If again the Angel had not expressly name him who had denied his Master, he would not have dared to come amongst the disciples; he is therefore called by name, lest he should despair on account of his denial.
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By saying, “He will go before you into Galilee, there shall ye see Him, and He said unto you,” he seems to imply, that Jesus would not shew Himself to His disciples after His Resurrection except in Galilee, which…
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For Galilee mean ‘a passing over’ [transmigratio]; for our Redeemer had already passed from His Passion to His Resurrection, from death unto life, and we shall have joy in seeing the glory of His Resurrection, if…
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This sentence is but short in the number of syllables, but the promise is vast in its greatness. Here is the fountain of our joy, and the source of everlasting life is prepared. Here all that are scattered are…
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It is also signified that the grace of Christ is about to pass over from the people of Israel to the Gentiles, by whom the Apostles would never have been received when they preached, if the Lord had not gone before…
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That is, they trembled because of the vision of Angels, and were amazed because of the Resurrection.
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The Angel sits on the sepulchre, the women fly from it; he, on account of his heavenly substance, is confident, that are troubled because of their earthly frame. He who cannot die, cannot fear the tomb, but the women…
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This also is spoken of the life to come, in which grief and groaning will flee away. For the women prefigure before the Resurrection all that is to happen to them after the Resurrection, namely, they flee away from…
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Either on account of the Jews, or else they said nothing because the fear of the vision prevented them.
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We may however enquire how Mark can say this, when Matthew says, “they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, and did run to bring His disciples word,” [Matt 28:8] unless we understand it to…
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It is said also in a marked manner, that they said nothing to any one, because it is the part of women to hear, and not to speak, to learn, not to teach.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 16:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.11.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 16:1–8 (5) (Catena Aurea).