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MATTHEW 28:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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“He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”
He is not here; he has risen, just as he said — the resurrection announcement is simultaneously present-tense declaration (he is not here), present-perfect event (he has risen), and fulfillment claim (just as he said). All three of Jesus' passion predictions had announced the resurrection on the third day (Matthew 16:21, 17:23, 20:19); the angel's just as he said connects the empty tomb directly to Jesus' own words, establishing that the disciples' failure to understand the predictions does not invalidate them. The invitation to come and see the place where he lay makes the empty tomb an evidentiary reality: this is not a vision or a spiritual experience but a physical location that can be examined. The emptiness of the tomb does not prove the resurrection but establishes the necessary condition: whatever happened to Jesus, his body is not here.

Church Fathers on Matthew 28:6

After the mockings and scourgings, after the mingled dr aug hts of vinegar and gall, the pains of the cross, and the wounds, and finally after death itself and Hades, there rose again from the grave a renewed flesh, there returned from obstruction a hidden life, health chained up in death broke forth, with fresh beauty from its ruin.

Pseudo-Chrysostom · 5th century · Hom. de Resur., iii

Concerning the hour when the women came to the sepulchre there arises a question not to be overlooked. Matthew here says, 'On the evening of the Sabbath.' What then means that of Mark, 'Very early in the morning, the first day of the week?' [Mark 16:2]

Augustine · 4th century · de Cons. Ev., iii, 24

Otherwise; It may be understood that they began to come in the evening, but that it was the dawn of the first day of the week when they reached the sepulchre; that is, that they prepared the spices for anointing the Lord’s body in the evening, but that they took them to the sepulchre in the morning. This has been so shortly described by Matthew, that it is not quite clear in his account, but the other Evangelists give the order more distinctly. The Lord was buried on the…

Bede · 8th century · Beda in loc.
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