5B Jesus Resurrected on the Day “After the Sabbath”

Matthew 28:1—“After the sabbath”

Gr., Ὀψὲ . . . σαββάτων (o·pseʹ. . . sab·baʹton)

J. H. Thayer, in A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, fourth ed., Edinburgh (1901), p. 471, says: “ὀψὲ σαββάτων, the sabbath having just passed, after the sabbath, i.e. at the early dawn of the first day of the week—(an interpretation absolutely demanded by the added specification τῇ ἐπιφωσκ. κτλ. [tei e·pi·pho·sk(ouʹ sei) ktl., “when it was growing light” etc.]), Mt. xxviii. 1.” Also, Lexicon Graecum Novi Testamenti, by F. Zorell, third ed., 1961, column 969, says: “post [after]: ὀφὲ σαββάτων Mt 28:1 ‘post sabbatum’ [‘after the sabbath’].” And A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, by W. Bauer, second English ed., 1979, p. 601, says under ὀψέ: “after ὀψὲ σαββάτων after the Sabbath Mt 28:1.”