Luke 24:4 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 24:4

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass, while they were perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel:

KJV

And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:

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Commentary

3 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (373)

(Lib. de Inc. Fil. Dei.) He might indeed at once have raised His body from the dead. But some one would have said that He was never dead, or that death plainly had never existed in Him. And perhaps if the resurrection of our Lord had been delayed beyond the third day, the glory of incorruption had been concealed. In order therefore to show His body to be dead, He suffered the interval of one day, and on the third day manifested His body to be without corruption.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Cyril of Alexandria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (444)

When then they found not the body of Christ which was risen, they were distracted by various thoughts, and for their love of Christ and the tender care they had shown Him, were thought worthy of the vision of angels. For it follows, And it came to pass as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And it came to pass as they were much perplexed thereabout,.... About the body of Christ, and its being gone, what should become of it, whither it was removed, and by what means, and by whom; whether by a friend, or foe, for they had no thought, nor expectation of a resurrection; behold, two men stood by them in shining garments; who were angels in the form of men; and as these were the first witnesses of Christs resurrection, there were two of them; for by the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is established.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	it came to pass	G1096 →
ἐν	en	while	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
ἀπορεῖσθαι	aporeisthai	perplexing	G639 →
αὐτὰς	autas	they	G846 →
περὶ	peri	about	G4012 →
τούτου	toutou	this	G3778 →
καὶ	kai	that	G2532 →
ἰδοὺ	idou	behold	G2400 →
ἄνδρες	andres	men	G435 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →
ἐπέστησαν	epestēsan	stood by	G2186 →
αὐταῖς	autais	them	G846 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἐσθῆτι	esthēti	garment	G2066 →
ἀστραπτούσῃ.	astraptousē	dazzling.	G797 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 18:2
And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:2
  Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Genesis 18:22
  And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.
- Judges 13:3
  The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
Through
Mark 16:5
When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
leads to
- John 20:11–12
  But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb,
- John 20:8
  Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in. And he saw and believed.
- Luke 24:3–5
  but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
- Matthew 28:3
  His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
Through
Acts 1:10
They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
leads to
- John 20:12
  and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.