Matthew 27:51
Right then the veil of the Temple was torn apart from top to bottom. The ground shook, the rocks split apart,
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50Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and breathed his last.
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Exodus 40:21Then he carried the Ark into the Tabernacle. He put up the veil, and made sure the Ark of the Testimony was behind it, as the Lord had ordered him to do.
Leviticus 16:12Then he will fill up an incense burner with burning coals from the altar that is before the Lord, and with his hands full of finely ground sweet-smelling incense, take them behind the veil.
2 Chronicles 3:14He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson embroidery on fine linen, with images of cherubim on it.
Psalms 18:15You roared, Lord, and by the wind from the breath of your nostrils the valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth were uncovered.
Micah 1:3Look! The Lord is coming, leaving his place and coming down, and is walking on the high places of the earth.
Habakkuk 3:10Mountains saw you and shook. Water poured down and swept by. The deep called out, lifting high its waves.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:51-57
The Crucifixion; The Death of Christ. 50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. 54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the… Read the whole commentary →