Context The narrative in chapter 24 continues the events concluding chapter 23 without a break:
Verse 1 :
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. Frederic Farrar, in the
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, suggests that the words "certain others" are "probably spurious", not being part of the text in the
Codex Sinaiticus,
Codex Vaticanus,
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus or
Codex Regius manuscripts.
Verse 2 :
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, The positioning of a stone outside the tomb is mentioned in the accounts of Jesus' burial in
Matthew and
Mark, but not in Luke. Some ancient authorities add "of the Lord Jesus"; these words are included in many English translations.
Verse 10 and Beginning of
John on the same page of
Codex Vaticanus ( 300–325) ( 400–440) containing the ending of the
Gospel of Luke :
Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles. The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee, as listed in
Luke 8:2-3, included "Mary Magdalene,
Joanna,
Mary the mother of James, and many others: these who provided material sustenance to Jesus during his travels. The names of some women are mentioned in the other gospels, but only Luke's gospel mentions Joanna, implying that Luke receives his special information from "one (most likely Joanna) or more than one of" the women. In
Luke 8:1–3 Mary called Magdalene, Joanna the wife of Chuza, and
Susanna are named as women , along with other unnamed women. While
Matthew,
Mark and
John mentioned the names of the women present at the cross, Luke only refers them as "the women who had followed him from Galilee" (), but he names the women at the end in the story of the women's visit to the
empty tomb (Luke 24:10). The two passages with the names of some women alongside the mention of the
"twelve" and "apostles", respectively (
Luke 8:1–3 and Luke 24:10), "form a literary
inclusio" which brackets the major part of Jesus' ministry (leaving out only the earliest part of it).
Verse 12 :
But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened. This verse and verse 34,
"The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!", suggest that
Peter (alone) went to the tomb, whereas verse 24,
And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, implies more than one person. ==The road to Emmaus (verses 13–35)==