Matthew 28:3 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 28:3

His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

KJV

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ASV

His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

WEB

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

YLT

and his countenance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow,

DBT

And his look was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Matthew 17:2
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Mark 9:3
And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
Revelation 1:14
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Acts 1:10
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Judges 13:6
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

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The kingdom of Christ, which was now to be set up, made the earth to quake, and terribly shook it. Those who are sanctified, and thereby raised to a spiritual life, while it is in the doing find an earthquake in their own bosoms, as Paul, who trembled and was astonished.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When Christ died, the court of heaven went into keep mourning, signified by the darkening of the sun; but when he arose, they again put on the garments of praise. The glory of this angel represented the glory of Christ, to which he was now risen, for it is the same description that was given of him in his transfiguration ( ch. xvii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

His countenance--appearance. was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow--the one expressing the glory, the other the purity of the celestial abode from which he came.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G17428× in canon G302225× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MAT 28:3MRK 9:3 DAN 7:9
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAT 28:3ACT 1:10 REV 7:14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAT 28:3ACT 1:10 LUK 24:4
MAT 28:3MRK 16:5 JHN 20:11-12
MAT 28:3ACT 1:10 JHN 20:12
MAT 28:3REV 18:1 EZE 43:2
MAT 28:3REV 18:1 LUK 17:24
MAT 28:3MRK 16:5 JHN 20:8

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