Luke 24:6-7

24:6 He is not here, but has been raised! ¹  Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, ²  24:7 that ³  the Son of Man must be delivered ⁴  into the hands of sinful men, ⁵  and be crucified, ⁶  and on the third day rise again.” ⁷ 

Luke 24:26

24:26 Wasn’t ⁸  it necessary ⁹  for the Christ ¹⁰  to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

Luke 24:44

Jesus’ Final Commission

24:44 Then ¹¹  he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me ¹²  in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms ¹³  must be fulfilled.”

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¹ tc The phrase “He is not here, but has been raised” is omitted by a few mss (D it), but it has wide ms support and differs slightly from the similar statement in Matt 28:6 and Mark 16:6. Although NA²⁷ places the phrase at the beginning of v. 6, as do most modern English translations, it is omitted from the RSV and placed at the end of v. 5 in the NRSV.

tn The verb here is passive (ἠγέρθη, hgerqh). This “divine passive” (see ExSyn 437-38) points to the fact that Jesus was raised by God, and such activity by God is a consistent Lukan theological emphasis: Luke 20:37; 24:34; Acts 3:15; 4:10; 5:30; 10:40; 13:30, 37. A passive construction is also used to refer to Jesus’ exaltation: Luke 24:51; Acts 1:11, 22.

² sn While he was still in Galilee looks back to the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. So the point is that this was announced long ago, and should come as no surprise.

³ tn Grk “saying that,” but this would be redundant in English. Although the translation represents this sentence as indirect discourse, the Greek could equally be taken as direct discourse: “Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee: ‘the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’”

⁴ tn See Luke 9:22, 44; 13:33.

⁵ tn Because in the historical context the individuals who were primarily responsible for the death of Jesus (the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem in Luke’s view [see Luke 9:22]) would have been men, the translation “sinful men” for ἀνθρώπων ἁμαρτωλῶν (anqrwpwn Jamartwlwn) is retained here.

⁶ sn See the note on crucify in 23:21.

⁷ tn Here the infinitive ἀναστῆναι (anasthnai) is active rather than passive.

⁸ tn This Greek particle (οὐχί, ouci) expects a positive reply.

⁹ sn The statement Wasn’t it necessary is a reference to the design of God’s plan (see Luke 24:7). Suffering must precede glory (see Luke 17:25).

¹⁰ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

sn See the note on Christ in 2:11.

¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹² sn Everything written about me. The divine plan, events, and scripture itself are seen here as being one.

¹³ 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.