The Resurrection of Christ

13. The Resurrection.

Luk 24:1  And, on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices they had prepared.

Luk 24:2  But they found the stone rolled back from the tomb,

Luk 24:3  and on entering they found that the body of the Lord Jesus was not there.

Luk 24:4  At this they were in great perplexity, when suddenly there stood by them two men whose raiment flashed like lightning.

Luk 24:5  The women were terrified; but, as they stood with their faces bowed to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you search among the dead for Him who is living?

Luk 24:6  He is not here. He has come back to life. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

Luk 24:7  when He told you that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again."

Luk 24:8  Then they remembered His words,

Notes:On the third day, a Sunday, several women (Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Joanna and Salome are all mentioned in the gospel accounts) went to the tomb at dawn to anoint the body of Jesus.

A violent earthquake took place as an angel from heaven rolled back the stone. The guards shook in fear as the angel, dressed in bright white, sat upon the stone. The angel announced to the women that Jesus who was crucified was no longer in the tomb, "He is not here, He is risen, just as he said." Then he instructed the women to inspect the tomb and see for themselves. Next he told them to go inform the disciples.

With a mixture of fear and joy they ran to obey the angel's command, but suddenly Jesus met them on their way. They fell at his feet and worshiped him. Jesus then said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see me." <about Christianity.com>

"He is not here, He is risen"

1.It was the first day of the Week, at early dawn.

This was Sunday, or the First day of the  week. Believers meet together on Sunday to remember Christ’s Death and Resurrection, not to keep the Sabbath.

They brought the spices and perfumes they had prepared the day before the Sabbath.23v56

As soon as ever they could, after the sabbath was over, they came to the sepulchre, to embalm his body, not to take it out of the linen in which Joseph had wrapped it, but to anoint the head and face, and perhaps the wounded hands and feet, and to scatter sweet spices upon and about the body; as it is usual with us to strew flowers about the dead bodies and graves of our friends, only to show our good-will towards the taking off the deformity of death if we could,

But if the spices of the women are the spikenard and myrrh of a mingled love and grief, they are at the same time a tacit admission of their error. They prove conclusively that the women, at any rate, had no thought of a resurrection.Expositor’s Bible Commentary

2. They came.

Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Joses (Mat_28:1), Salome (Mar_16:1), and Joanna (Luk_24:10).

3. Why seek for the Living among the dead.

intimating, that Christ, though he had been dead, was now living, and not to be sought for in a sepulchre; J. Gill

4. Remembering His Words

The  Angel said, “Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

Luk 24:7  when He told you that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.” . See Mat_16:21; Mat_17:22; Mar_8:31; Mar_9:31; Joh_2:22. These women were of Galilee and had heard, or heard of, these words.  They remembered. They had not comprehended his words before.

5. The women returned and told the Disciples

Luk 24:11  But the whole story seemed to them an idle tale; they could not believe the women.

Luk 24:12  Peter, however, rose and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw nothing but the linen cloths: so he went away to his own home, wondering at what had happened.

14. Two on the Road to Emmaus.

Luk 24:13  On that same day two of the disciples were walking to Emmaus, a village seven or eight miles from Jerusalem,

Luk 24:14  and were conversing about all these recent events;

Luk 24:15  and, in the midst of their conversation and discussion, Jesus Himself came and joined them,

Luk 24:16  though they were prevented from recognizing Him.

Luk 24:17  "What is the subject," He asked them, "on which you are talking so earnestly, as you walk?" And they stood still, looking full of sorrow.

Luk 24:18  Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered, "Are you a stranger lodging alone in Jerusalem, that you have known nothing of the things that have lately happened in the city?"

Luk 24:19  "What things?" He asked. "The things about Jesus the Nazarene," they said, "who was a Prophet powerful in work and word before God and all the people;

Luk 24:20  and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him.

Luk 24:21  But we were hoping that it was He who was about to ransom Israel. Yes, and moreover it was the day before yesterday that these things happened.

Luk 24:22  And, besides, some of the women of our company have amazed us. They went to the tomb at daybreak,

Luk 24:23  and, finding that His body was not there, they came and declared to us that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.

Luk 24:24  Thereupon some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said; but Jesus Himself they did not see."

Luk 24:25  "O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!

Luk 24:26  Was there not a necessity for the Christ thus to suffer, and then enter into His glory?"

Luk 24:27  And, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the passages in Scripture which refer to Himself.

Luk 24:28  When they had come near the village to which they were going, He appeared to be going further.

Luk 24:29  But they pressed Him to remain with them. "Because," said they, "it is getting towards evening, and the day is nearly over." So He went in to stay with them.

Luk 24:30  But as soon as He had sat down with them, and had taken the bread and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

Luk 24:31  their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. But He vanished from them.

Luk 24:32  "Were not our hearts," they said to one another, "burning within us while He talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?"

Luk 24:33  So they rose and without an hour's delay returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and the rest met together, who said to them,

Luk 24:34  "Yes, it is true: the Master has come back to life. He has been seen by Simon."

Luk 24:35  Then they related what had happened on the way, and how He had been recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

Notes 
1. Luk 24:16  though they were prevented from recognizing Him.
Their eyes were holden KJV- This expression is used merely to denote that they did not “know” who he was. It does not appear that there was anything supernatural or miraculous in it, or that God used any power to blind them. It may easily be accounted for without any such supposition; for, 1. Jesus appeared “in another form” Mar_16:12 - that is, different from his “usual” appearance. 2. They were not “expecting” to see him - indeed, they did not suppose that he was alive, and it required the strongest evidence to convince them that he was really risen from the dead. Barnes Notes.

2. Luk 24:25  "O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!

Luk 24:26  Was there not a necessity for the Christ thus to suffer, and then enter into His glory?"

dull-witted WNT fools KJV ἀνόητος anoētos Thayer Definition: 1) not understood, unintelligible 2) not understanding, unwise, foolish Part of Speech: adjective

with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken! Slow of heart to believe - Not quick to perceive. Dull of learning. They had suffered their previous opinions and prejudices to prevent their seeing the evidence that he must die and rise from the dead. All that the prophets have spoken - Respecting the character and sufferings of the Messiah. See the notes at Luk_24:27.

3. Luke 24:27 Beginning at Moses, etc. - What a sermon this must have been, where all the prophecies relative to the incarnation, birth, teaching, miracles, sufferings, death, and resurrection of the blessed Jesus were all adduced, illustrated, and applied to himself, by an appeal to the well known facts which had taken place during his life! We are almost irresistibly impelled to exclaim, What a pity this discourse had not been preserved! No wonder their hearts burned within them, while hearing such a sermon, from such a preacher. The law and the prophets had all borne testimony, either directly or indirectly, to Christ; and we may naturally suppose that these prophecies and references were those which our Lord at this time explained and applied to himself. See Luk_24:32.