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.

50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.(A)

51 At that moment the curtain of the temple(B) was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split(C) 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

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