Luke 24:2–3

Footnotes

1. 4 Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2. 5 Luke tells the story of the empty tomb with little drama. He simply notes that when they arrived the stone had been rolled away in a position where the tomb could be entered. This large stone was often placed in a channel so that it could be easily moved by rolling it aside. The other possibility is that it was merely placed over the opening in a position from which it had now been moved.
3. 6 The translation follows the much better attested longer reading here, “body of the Lord Jesus” (found in {𝔓75 א A B C L W Θ Ψ f1, 13 33 565 700 𝔐}), rather than simply “the body” (found in D it) or “the body of Jesus” (found in 579 1241 ). Further, although this is the only time that “Lord Jesus” occurs in Luke, it seems to be Luke’s normal designation for the Lord after his resurrection (note the many references to Christ in this manner in Acts, e.g., 1:21; 4:33; 7:59; 8:16; 11:17; 15:11; 16:31; 19:5; 20:21; 28:31). Although such a longer reading as this would normally be suspect, in this case some scribes, accustomed to Luke’s more abbreviated style, did not take the resurrection into account. What they found was not what they expected—an empty tomb.