Charles Spurgeon Commentary Mark 16:3-4

"And they were saying among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the tomb? and looking up, they see that the stone is rolled back: for it was exceeding great." — Mark 16:3-4 (ASV)

And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

Take comfort from this verse, you who are seeking to serve your Lord. There will surely be stones in your way, and some of them may be very great ones; but they will be rolled away in the Lord's good time, and in their rolling away, often you will have all the greater joy.

If the effort should need the strength of an angel, then an angel will be sent from heaven for the purpose. There might have been no angel if there had been no stone; and you might have no revelation of the power of heaven to help you if you had not first had a revelation of your own weakness and inability to roll away the stone.

And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher? And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

Which was, I suppose, the reason for their thinking about the stone, but still, I cannot help reading it as a reason why it was rolled away. In any case, this was the argument that David used when he prayed, For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great; (Psalms 25:11); as if the greatness of the sin had in it some reason for pardon.

So the greatness of the care may be some reason why we might expect a great God to come to our relief. It was a very great stone; therefore God, who knew that poor, feeble women could not move it, himself had it rolled away.