05/02/2022 – Day 064 – Matthew 26 – 28 – God’s wrath and fury unleashed immediately after Jesus gave up his spirit.
Check the link below, a really articulate and sublime commentary from John Gill of verse 51, God the Father ripping in two the temple curtain from top to bottom. The Roman soldiers cried out at the cross : “Surely this man was the Son of God”. Were the temple priests so instantly converted to God’s Truth? But if not, their hearts had to really have been hardened like Pharaohs and maybe then some. Yet, John Gill notes the interesting contrast how the Holy Spirit swept through and converted Jews in large numbers from Peter’s early sermons as recorded in the book of Acts.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/matthew-27-51.html
And also check out John Gill’s commentary on verses 52 and 53 immediately following, that tells of the saints that were rasied out the tombs, immediately following Jesus’ resurrection, witnessing to fellow souls that had even known them in some cases.
We will eternally be constantly amazed!
Soli Deo Gloria!