Luke 24:23

and as they did not find the body, they came and said to us: We saw angels there, and they said that he is alive.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.

In Context

22And moreover, certain women of ours astonished us; for they went early to the sepulchre;

24And also some of us went to the sepulchre; and they found, as the women reported; but him they saw not.

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Cross References

Matthew 28:6He is not here; for he is risen, as he predicted. Come ye, see the place where our Lord was laid.

Luke 24:3And they entered, and found not the body of Jesus.

Matthew Henry on Luke 24:14-36

The Disciples Going to Emmaus. 13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. 16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. 17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are… Read the whole commentary →

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