Luke 24:23

24:23 and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

Luke 24:44

Jesus’ Final Commission

24:44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”


sn The men in dazzling attire mentioned in v. 4 are identified as angels here.

tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

sn Everything written about me. The divine plan, events, and scripture itself are seen here as being one.

sn For a similar threefold division of the OT scriptures, see the prologue to Sirach, lines 8-10, and from Qumran, the epilogue to 4QMMT, line 10.