Luke 24:5 Cross References - AUV

⁵ As the women became terrified and bowed down with their faces toward the ground [i.e., in reverence and awe], the two men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living [One] where they bury dead people?

³ He appeared as [brilliant] lightning and his clothing was white as snow. ⁴ And the guards shook with fear at seeing him, and became as dead men. ⁵ The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know you are looking for Jesus, who has been crucified.

⁵ As they were entering the cave, they were amazed when they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting at the right side of the entrance. ⁶ He said to them, “Do not be amazed. You are looking for Jesus from Nazareth, who was crucified, [are you not]? He has risen from the dead. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid Him.

¹² Zacharias became disturbed when he saw the angel and was gripped by fear. ¹³ But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid Zacharias, for your earnest prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will give birth to a son and you will name him John.

²⁹ But she became very troubled by what he said and wondered what such a greeting could mean.

³ About three o'clock one afternoon [Note: This is based on Jewish time calculations; if Roman time were employed, it would have been 9 AM], while he was wide awake, he had a vision in which an angel of God came to him [and spoke his name] "Cornelius." ⁴ As he stared at [the angel] in fright, he asked, "What is it, Lord?" [Note: The word "Lord" here could also be translated "Sir," and its correct rendering depends on whether or not Cornelius understood the angel to be from God]. And the angel replied, "Your [continual] prayers and [generous] gifts to poor people have not gone unnoticed before God.

⁸ And in the one case, men here [on earth, that is, the Levites] who die, collect a tenth [from the rest of the Israelites], but there [i.e., in the case of Melchizedek] it is collected by someone about whom it is declared [by Scripture] that he continues to live.

¹⁸ and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am [now] alive forever and ever! And I possess the keys of death and of the unseen place of departed spirits.

⁸ “And write [this] to the angel of the church at Smyrna: These things are the words of the First and the Last [i.e., Jesus], who was dead, but has come [back] to life: