Mark 16:4 (DBY)

Passage

And when they looked, they see that the stone has been rolled [away], for it was very great.

Nearby Context

Mark 16:2 And very early on the first [day] of the week they come to the sepulchre, the sun having risen.

Mark 16:3 And they said to one another, Who shall roll us away the stone out of the door of the sepulchre?

Mark 16:4 And when they looked, they see that the stone has been rolled [away], for it was very great.

Mark 16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right, clothed in a white robe, and they were amazed and alarmed;

Mark 16:6 but he says to them, Be not alarmed. Ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, the crucified one. He is risen, he is not here; behold the place where they had put him.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "looked", "stone", "been", "rolled", "away", "very", and "great". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "looked" and "stone", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "And they said to one another Who..." into verse 5's "And entering into the sepulchre they saw...", so "looked" and "stone" belong inside that flow. In Mark context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "looked" and "stone" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.