What Does Luke 23:55 Mean?
And the women also, who had come with him from Galilee, walked closely behind, and gazed at the tomb, and at how his body was placed.
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King James wording
King James Version
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.THE KEY
The tomb is also a memorial, so the women’s careful seeing makes it a place that holds what must be remembered.
THE MEANING
You meet grief with its details still held in view: the women behold the tomb and how the body is laid. The place carries memory, so what is seen remains a witness rather than dissolving into the loss.
THE ROOT
μνημεῖον
mnēmeion
GROWS FROM
μνημ-
mnēm-
memory, remembrance
English “sepulchre” foregrounds burial, while the Greek word also belongs to the memory family: the tomb is a memorial. The women’s exact seeing makes the place a witness, not an empty backdrop.
ALSO GROWS
mnēmē: memory, remembrance
μνήμη
This related word reveals the memory carried within the word for tomb.
mimnēskomai: to remember, recall
μιμνῄσκομαι
This branch shows memory as an act that can bring what was seen back into view.
anamnēsis: remembrance
ἀνάμνησις
This related form connects the memorial place with remembrance that is actively renewed.
THE PATTERN
Careful witness preserves details so memory can carry them forward.
And this day will be for you a remembrance. You will keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations, a statute for the ages.He is not here, but has been raised. Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee.That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have perceived with our eyes, which we have gazed upon, and our hands have touched, concerning the word of life.THE THREAD
He is not here, but has been raised. Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee.The tomb word carries the remembrance family, and the call to remember here carries the same root. What the women behold as a place of memory remains in view when the words of resurrection return.
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