Study
47 From the Book of Matthew is: Matthew 27:51-66
1.
What is the significance of the torn curtain of the Temple
(verse 51)? Cf. Heb. 9:8; 10:19-23. How
are the manifestations recorded in verses 52, 53 linked with these truths?
2.
What made Joseph of Arimathea (and Nicodemus, Jn. 19:39) come
out into the open at this late stage? Is it not at first sight strange that
they should now publicly associate themselves with Christ? What, in the purposes of God, did such a
burial demonstrate and make possible?
Note.
Verse 62. ‘Next day, that is, after the day of Preparation’: it looks as if, in
their concern to safeguard the tom, the Jewish leaders even broke their own
sacred sabbath laws.
