Mark 16 Commentary Series: Verse 3

And they said among themselves,

Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?

Mark 16:3

 

Adam Clarke

Charles Spurgeon

Matthew Henry

They knew that the stone was too heavy for them to roll away;
A question that has puzzled many other people concerning many other things perplexed these holy women, yet there was no reason for the question to be

raised at all. Peradventure, some of you are at this time distressed when there is no cause for distress, and in fear where no fear is. It was so with these women, who said, one to another, “Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?”
They should have thought of this before they came out, and then discretion would have bid them not go, unless they had those to go with them, who could do it. And there was another difficulty much greater than this, to be got over, which they knew nothing of, to wit, a guard of soldiers set to keep the sepulchre who, had they come before they were frightened away, would have frightened them away. But their gracious love to Christ carried them to the sepulchre and see how by the time they came thither, both these difficulties were removed, both the stone which they knew of, and the guard which they knew not of.