What Does Mark 16:6 Mean?
And he said to them, Do not be stunned. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.THE KEY
The tomb is named as the place they laid him, but the verb says he has been raised beyond its reach.
THE MEANING
The announcement meets fear with this: Jesus is raised, and the grave is no longer where he is. The empty place shows that death has not held him.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the certainty that a grave is the final location of the one laid there.
THE ROOT
ἠγέρθη
ēgerthē
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω (egeirō; stem ἐγειρ-)
To wake, rouse, or raise from lying down or death.
“has been raised” in this verse is ēgerthē. The word translated “risen” is a form of the verb meaning “raised” or “roused.” The same verb can describe waking someone from sleep, so the verse holds awakening and rising from death in one word.
ALSO GROWS
awake: To rouse someone from sleep.
The disciples use this same verb to wake Jesus in the boat; here the verb names his raising from death.
arise: To rise at a command, including from death.
Jesus speaks this same verb to the girl lying dead, connecting her rising with the announcement that he is risen.
THE PATTERN
The place marked by death does not have the final claim on the life God raises.
O LORD, you brought up my living soul from Sheol. You kept me alive from those who go down into the pit.Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the ground of Israel.So we were laid in the ground with him through immersion into death, that as the Anointed One was raised from the dead through the weight of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.THE THREAD
And he grasped the child by the hand and said to her, "Talitha cumi, little girl, I say to you, arise."“Arise” is the same Greek verb as “risen” in this verse. The verb that calls a girl out of death is the one that names Jesus as raised.
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