What Does Matthew 28:6 Mean?
He is not here, for he was raised, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
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King James Version
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.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
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 he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before his face.Jesus said to her, I am the rising, and the life. Whoever leans their weight into me, even if they die, will live.God raised him up, having loosed the labor pangs of death, for it was not possible for him to be held by it.THE THREAD
But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on the earth to release shortcomings, then he said to the loosened man, Rise, lift up your bed, and go to your 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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