Luke 24:6

He is not here, but has been raised! ¹  Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, ² 

Mt 12:40; Mt 16:21; Mt 17:22,23; Mt 20:18,19; Mt 27:63; Mt 28:6; Mr 8:31; Mr 9:9,10,31,32; Mr 10:33,34; Lu 9:22; Lu 18:31-33; Lu 24:44-46

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.