2.1 KiB
Luke 24 General Notes
Special concepts in this chapter
The tomb
The tomb in which Jesus was buried (Luke 24:1) was the kind of tomb in which wealthy Jewish families buried their dead. It was an actual room cut into a rock. It had a flat place on one side where they could place the body after they had put oil and spices on it and wrapped it in cloth. Then they would roll a large rock in front of the tomb so no one could see inside or enter.
Faith of the women
It appears Luke purposefully contrasts the faith of the women in this chapter with the faith of the twelve disciples.
Resurrection
Luke goes to great lengths in this chapter to defend Jesus's physical resurrection from the dead. Luke shows that it was not possible for another person to have died in Jesus' place. He also shows that the resurrection was not a metaphor. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/resurrection and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
Other possible translation difficulties in this chapter
Son of Man
Jesus refers to himself as the "Son of Man." Not every language allows a person to refer to himself in the third person.
"On the third day"
Jesus is said to have risen from the dead on the third day. He died on a Friday afternoon (before sunset) and was raised on a Sunday. In ancient Israel, a day began and ended at sunset. They also counted any part of the day as a "day."
Two men in bright shining robes
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all wrote about angels in white clothing with the women at Jesus' tomb. Two of the authors called them men, but that is only because the angels were in human form. Two of the authors wrote about two angels, but the other two authors wrote about only one of them. It is best to translate each of these passages as it appears in the ULB without trying to make the passages all say exactly the same thing. (See: Matthew 28:1-2 and Mark 16:5 and Luke 24:4 and John 20:12)
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