Luke 24:5

Translations

Modern

As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Traditional

And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Literal

And on their having become terrified and bowing the faces to the ground, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living with the dead?

Latin

Cum timerent autem, et declinarent vultum in terram, dixerunt ad illas: Quid quæritis viventem cum mortuis?

Original

Greek

English

As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Notes

Luke 24:5–7

Jesus had told his followers many times that he would rise from the dead (see 9:22, 44; 17:25; 18:31–34). The resurrection of Jesus is a key belief of the Christian faith (see 1 Corinthians 15:3–7, 12–57).

Luke 24:1–12

Women were the first to find the tomb empty and to hear the announcement of the resurrection. This is strong evidence for the historicity of the resurrection accounts. In first-century Judaism, women were not regarded as reliable witnesses, so the church would never have created stories in which women discovered the empty tomb.

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