‘He is not here, for he has been raised, even as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.'

Then he informed them that Jesus was no longer there. He had been raised by God, just as He had promised. And he invited them to see the place where the Lord had lain. He wanted them to glory in the emptiness of the tomb. Note the use of ‘the Lord'. Jesus was now a figure of great authority and power. He was ‘the Lord' of the ‘angel of the Lord'.

(Textual note. Aleph, B, Theta omit ‘Lord. But it is found in A, D, W, f1, f13, 565, 700. It may have been omitted over uneasiness about the thought of ‘the Lord' (YHWH) having been in a tomb).

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