What Does Matthew 28:6 Mean in the King James?
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The empty place is visible evidence that death no longer holds the one who lay there.
THE MEANING
The Lord is raised; the place that held him is empty. His word and what can be seen agree: the grave is not where he remains. You meet the verse at that open place, where death does not have the final claim.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the place of death must be the final truth about the one who has died.
THE ROOT
ἠγέρθη
ēgerthē
GROWS FROM
ἐγειρ-
egeir-
to awaken, rouse, or raise
“risen” in this verse is ēgerthē. Here the verb means that he has been raised. Its word family also speaks of awakening and rising from the dead, joining the image of waking to the claim that the one who lay in the tomb has been raised from it.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: to awaken, raise, or arise
ἐγείρω
In Matthew 9:6, an inflected form of this verb is the command “Arise” to a man unable to walk.
egersis: a rising; resurrection
ἔγερσις
Matthew 27:53 uses this noun for Jesus’ resurrection, naming the rising as an event from the same word family.
THE PATTERN
The word of life names a rising that the visible place of death cannot contain.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.THE THREAD
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.“Arise” translates ἔγειρε (egeire), meaning “arise” or “be raised,” from the same Greek verb family as “risen” here. One root names rising from a bed of paralysis and rising from a grave.
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