Luke 24:5

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?

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

4While they were puzzling over this, suddenly two men in radiant apparel stood beside them.

6He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:

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Cross References

Daniel 8:17As he came near to where I stood, I was terrified and fell facedown. “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”

Daniel 10:16And suddenly one with the likeness of a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision, I am overcome with anguish, and I have no strength.

Matthew 28:3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

Luke 1:12When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and gripped with fear.

Acts 10:3One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

Revelation 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever. Amen. And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

Matthew Henry on Luke 24:2-13

The Resurrection. 1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why… Read the whole commentary →

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