Luke 24 Bible study: Their eyes were opened

"But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared." (24:1). They are the women of the chapter before, who "had come with him out of Galilee", "saw the tomb and how his body was laid", and "prepared spices and ointments" (23:55-56). "They found the stone rolled away from the tomb." (24:2), and "didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body" (24:3). Two men in dazzling clothing said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee" (24:5-6). Favor's Luke 9 sets their words beside what Jesus had said (9:22, 9:44), in "The Son of Man must suffer", and draws its map line from 9:22 to 24:6-7; this chapter doesn't draw it again. "They remembered his words" (24:8) (tap words), and "told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest" (24:9). Here is what almost everyone misses: Luke calls the women's report by the same word. "These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them." (24:11) (tap nonsense). In Luke's Greek his words (24:8) and These words (24:11) are the same noun. The women remembered his words; the words they told were not believed. Favor's Mark 16 sets side by side what the four Gospels say of that morning; these notes don't do it again.

Luke 9:22→leads toLuke 24:6-7

Jesus says, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up" (Luke 9:22). At the empty tomb, two men say to the women (Luke 24:4-5), "He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?" (Luke 24:6-7).

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Strong's: "to open thoroughly, literally (as a first-born) or figuratively (to expound)". Thayer, listing 24:32: "to open the sense of the Scriptures, explain them"; and listing 24:45: "to open the mind of one, i. e. cause him to understand a thing". "Their eyes were opened and they recognized him" (24:31); "while he opened the Scriptures to us" (24:32); "Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures" (24:45). Luke's Greek has the verb four times (counted in RP2018): these three, and once near the start of the book, "Every male who opens the womb" (2:23). Favor's Mark 7 studies it too.