Luke 24:1-12
Let’s continue to pray for Jim and Marty.
“Notice what you notice.” Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” And they remembered His words… (vv. 6-8) It’s strange that the women would be remembering His words. What I would normally see here is Luke’s referring back to his text in 9:22, the exact prediction noted above, shortly after Peter’s “confession” and just before His transfiguration, where Jesus is alone with His disciples. But Luke may have been referring to a number of similar occasions that he did not record. We can easily suspect this because the angel is speaking to the women and Luke’s quote above was given only to Jesus’ closest disciples. I draw this conclusion from the larger context in Luke 9:18-23. Verse 18 has Him alone with His disciples and in verse 23 He is specifically speaking to “them all”. So if the women remembered His words…, it must be the case that He had spoken those words to them. Thus there must have been multiple dozens or even hundreds in Galilee who had heard Jesus predict His death and Resurrection. I’m probably not being very clear in my explanation, but merely trying to clear my own head that the women would have known of His Resurrection prediction.
So the disciples did not believe the women but had to go find out for themselves. Ladies, I’m sure you can have a lot of fun with that little snippet. Can I have a “glory”?
Slava Bohu!