What Does Luke 24:6 Mean?
He is not here, but has been raised. Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James Version
He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,THE KEY
The Greek word for “remember” belongs to the same word-family as “tomb,” so the empty place is read through the words kept in mind.
THE MEANING
Jesus is risen; death does not contain him. The words he has spoken to you remain present, and remembering them makes his absence legible as resurrection. What you see is understood through what he has said.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that an empty tomb proves death has won: the place is empty because Jesus is risen.
THE ROOT
μνήσθητε
mnēsthēte
GROWS FROM
μνη-/μνα- (mnē-/mnā-)
Remember, call to mind, keep in mind.
The word translated “remember” shares its word-family with the Greek word for a tomb or memorial. In this verse, remembering what was spoken makes the empty place readable as more than absence.
ALSO GROWS
mnēmeion: Tomb, memorial
μνημεῖον
This word-family link joins the place of burial with the act of remembering.
mnēmoneuō: Remember, call to mind
μνημονεύω
It carries the same movement of bringing something back into present attention.
ἠγέρθη
ēgerthē
GROWS FROM
ἐγερ-
eger-
Rouse, wake, raise.
“has been raised” in this verse is ēgerthē. The form translated “risen” belongs to a verb that also means to wake or rouse. Resurrection and awakening share one word-family here, while the passive form says that Jesus is raised.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: Wake, rouse, raise
ἐγείρω
Its range holds awakening and raising together in the word translated “risen.”
egersis: Raising, resurrection
ἔγερσις
This related noun makes the act of being raised explicit.
THE PATTERN
What God raises from death is not held by the place that once contained it.
For you do not leave my living soul to Sheol; you do not give your faithful one to see the pit.Jesus said to her, I am the rising, and the life. Whoever leans their weight into me, even if they die, will live.But if the breath of him who raised Jesus from the dead makes its home in you, then he who raised the Anointed One from the dead will also make your death-bound bodies alive through his breath that makes its home in you.THE THREAD
And they remembered his words.“Remember” in both verses comes from the same Greek verb family. Luke 24:8 shows the spoken words returning to mind, so the empty place is recognized through what Jesus has already said.
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