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Luke 24 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Luke 1–24 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 24

The empty tomb, the road to Emmaus, and the risen Lord

Verse 24:1

Greek–English Saints Priority

But on the first day of the week, at deep dawn, they came to the tomb, carrying the spices they had prepared.

Textual & Reception Notes

‘Deep dawn’ preserves ὄρθρου βαθέως, very early morning. The women’s action continues from the preceding chapter.

Verse 24:2

Greek–English Saints Priority

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

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Verse 24:3

Greek–English Saints Priority

but when they entered, they did not find the body.

Textual & Reception Notes

This base says ‘the body,’ without an added ‘of the Lord Jesus.’

NA28 reads οὐχ εὗρον τὸ σῶμα τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ (SBLGNT οὐχ εὗρον τὸ σῶμα); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 24:4

Greek–English Saints Priority

And it happened that, while they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood beside them in flashing clothing.

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Verse 24:5

Greek–English Saints Priority

They became afraid and bowed their faces to the ground, and the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?

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Verse 24:6

Greek–English Saints Priority

He is not here, but has been raised. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

Textual & Reception Notes

The declaration that He is not here but has been raised is present without square brackets in this source. The passive ‘has been raised’ is distinct from the active ‘rise’ in verse seven.

Verse 24:7

Greek–English Saints Priority

saying that the Son of Man must be handed over into the hands of sinful people and be crucified and rise on the third day.”

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Verse 24:8

Greek–English Saints Priority

And they remembered His words,

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Verse 24:9

Greek–English Saints Priority

and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the rest.

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Verse 24:10

Greek–English Saints Priority

It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

Textual & Reception Notes

Μαρία ἡ Ἰακώβου is literally Mary of James; the relationship noun is unexpressed. The customary identification as James’ mother is not inserted as if the noun occurred here.

Verse 24:11

Greek–English Saints Priority

But these words seemed to them like nonsense, and they did not believe the women.

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Verse 24:12

Greek–English Saints Priority

Yet Peter rose and ran to the tomb. Stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths alone, and went away, wondering to himself at what had happened.

Textual & Reception Notes

This entire verse is present without square brackets. πρὸς αὑτόν may describe Peter’s inward wondering or his departure to his own place; ‘wondering to himself’ adopts the former attachment.

Verse 24:13

Greek–English Saints Priority

And behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village named Emmaus, sixty stadia away from Jerusalem.

Textual & Reception Notes

The source distance is sixty stadia. The ancient unit is retained, with no geographical identification or alternative distance substituted.

Verse 24:14

Greek–English Saints Priority

They were talking with one another about all these things that had happened.

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Verse 24:15

Greek–English Saints Priority

And it happened that, as they talked and discussed, Jesus Himself drew near and traveled with them.

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Verse 24:16

Greek–English Saints Priority

But their eyes were held back from recognizing Him.

Textual & Reception Notes

The passive restraint of their eyes has no expressed agent. It is not recast as their deliberate refusal to recognize Him.

Verse 24:17

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He said to them, “What are these words you are exchanging with one another as you walk?” And they stood still, downcast.

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Verse 24:18

Greek–English Saints Priority

One named Cleopas answered Him, “Are You the only visitor in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

Textual & Reception Notes

Only Cleopas is named; no name or relationship is supplied for the companion.

Verse 24:19

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He said to them, “What things?” They said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

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Verse 24:20

Greek–English Saints Priority

and how our chief priests and rulers handed Him over to a judgment of death and crucified Him.

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Verse 24:21

Greek–English Saints Priority

But we were hoping that He was the One about to redeem Israel. Yet indeed, besides all these things, this is the third day since these things happened.

Textual & Reception Notes

‘Were hoping’ retains the imperfect. The idiomatic time expression marks the third day since the events without inserting a precise hour count.

Verse 24:22

Greek–English Saints Priority

Moreover, some women from among us astonished us. They went to the tomb early

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Verse 24:23

Greek–English Saints Priority

and did not find His body, and came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who say that He is alive.

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Verse 24:24

Greek–English Saints Priority

And some of those with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but Him they did not see.”

Textual & Reception Notes

The speakers report that ‘some’ went to the tomb, in the plural. This is retained alongside the individual account of Peter in verse twelve.

Verse 24:25

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!

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Verse 24:26

Greek–English Saints Priority

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into His glory?”

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Verse 24:27

Greek–English Saints Priority

And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Textual & Reception Notes

The narrative describes a scriptural interpretation but does not reproduce its particular proof texts. No reconstructed discourse is added.

Verse 24:28

Greek–English Saints Priority

They drew near the village to which they were traveling, and He made as though He would travel farther.

Textual & Reception Notes

προσεποιήσατο is ‘made as though’ or acted as if. The action is retained without an explanatory motive.

Verse 24:29

Greek–English Saints Priority

But they urged Him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is toward evening and the day has already declined.” And He went in to stay with them.

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Verse 24:30

Greek–English Saints Priority

And it happened that as He reclined at table with them, He took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them.

Textual & Reception Notes

The actions of taking, blessing, breaking, and giving are preserved. This verse does not itself name the Eucharist; reception interpreting the meal sacramentally belongs in an attributed note.

Verse 24:31

Greek–English Saints Priority

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, and He vanished from their sight.

Textual & Reception Notes

ἄφαντος ἐγένετο ἀπ’ αὐτῶν describes His becoming unseen from them, rendered ‘vanished from their sight.’

Verse 24:32

Greek–English Saints Priority

And they said to one another, “Was not our heart burning within us as He spoke to us on the road, as He opened the Scriptures to us?”

Textual & Reception Notes

The source uses singular ‘our heart’ with plural possessors; the shared expression is retained.

Verse 24:33

Greek–English Saints Priority

They rose that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and those with them gathered together,

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Verse 24:34

Greek–English Saints Priority

saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!”

Textual & Reception Notes

The participle ‘saying’ agrees with those found gathered, who announce the appearance to Simon. Verse thirty-five then gives the two travelers’ report.

Verse 24:35

Greek–English Saints Priority

And they related the things that happened on the road, and how He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

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Verse 24:36

Greek–English Saints Priority

While they were speaking these things, He Himself stood among them.

Textual & Reception Notes

The base ends with His standing among them. It contains no spoken ‘Peace to you’ in this verse.

NA28 reads ἔστη ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· εἰρήνη ὑμῖν (SBLGNT ἔστη ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν.); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “He Himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace to you.”” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 24:37

Greek–English Saints Priority

But they were startled and became afraid, thinking they were seeing a spirit.

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Verse 24:38

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings arise in your heart?

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Verse 24:39

Greek–English Saints Priority

See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Feel Me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

Textual & Reception Notes

The explicit pair is flesh and bones, not flesh and blood. Touch and sight are both invited.

Verse 24:40

Greek–English Saints Priority

[And having said this, He showed them His hands and feet.]

Textual & Reception Notes

This verse is enclosed in actual square brackets in the Greek source, and the English retains those brackets. This is a report of source typography, not an independent apparatus judgment.

Verse 24:41

Greek–English Saints Priority

While they still did not believe for joy and were marveling, He said to them, “Do you have anything to eat here?”

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Verse 24:42

Greek–English Saints Priority

They gave Him a portion of broiled fish.

Textual & Reception Notes

The food is broiled fish. The base includes no honeycomb.

Verse 24:43

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He took it and ate before them.

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Verse 24:44

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He said to them, “These are My words that I spoke to you while I was still with you: everything written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and Psalms must be fulfilled.”

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Verse 24:45

Greek–English Saints Priority

Then He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures

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Verse 24:46

Greek–English Saints Priority

and said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

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Verse 24:47

Greek–English Saints Priority

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations—beginning from Jerusalem.

Textual & Reception Notes

The base joins repentance and forgiveness with καί, ‘and.’ The masculine plural ἀρξάμενοι, ‘beginning,’ refers to the human witnesses or proclaimers; its exact syntactic attachment across verses forty-seven–forty-eight remains open. The rendering does not replace καί with ‘for.’

NA28 reads μετάνοιαν εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν (SBLGNT μετάνοιαν καὶ ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “repentance for the forgiveness of sins” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 24:48

Greek–English Saints Priority

You are witnesses of these things.

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Verse 24:49

Greek–English Saints Priority

And behold, I am sending out the promise of My Father upon you; but remain in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Textual & Reception Notes

The source has present ‘I send out’ and speaks of ‘the city’ without repeating its name. The clothing metaphor for power from on high is retained.

NA28 reads ἐγὼ ἀποστέλλω (SBLGNT ἐγὼ ἐξαποστέλλω); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “I am sending the promise” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 24:50

Greek–English Saints Priority

And He led them out as far as toward Bethany, and lifted His hands and blessed them.

Textual & Reception Notes

ἕως πρὸς Βηθανίαν is ‘as far as toward Bethany’; the approximate directional wording is preserved.

Verse 24:51

Greek–English Saints Priority

And it happened that while He blessed them, He parted from them [and was carried up into heaven].

Textual & Reception Notes

Only ‘and was carried up into heaven’ is square-bracketed in this source. The preceding departure from them is outside the brackets.

Verse 24:52

Greek–English Saints Priority

And they [having worshiped Him] returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

Textual & Reception Notes

Only ‘having worshiped Him’ is square-bracketed in this source. προσκυνέω is rendered worship here; the source’s editorial bracket is retained without an invented manuscript list.

Verse 24:53

Greek–English Saints Priority

and were continually in the temple, blessing God.

Textual & Reception Notes

The base concludes with blessing God, without an added Amen.