Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 24:8
And they remembered his words,
Verse 8. They remembered his words.] Even the simple recollection of the words of Christ becomes often a source of comfort and support to those who are distressed or tempted: for his words are the words of eternal life.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And they remembered his words. That is, the words of Christ, as the Persic version expresses it; which they had forgot, and it may be had never truly understood until now; and had now their memories refreshed with them by the angels, and their understandings opened by the Spirit of God. Saints are sometimes apt to forget even the gracious promises of God, they have understood and received comfort from; the word, or words, on which they have been caused to hope, until the Spirit of God, who is their best remembrancer, puts them in mind of them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1)“And they remembered,” (kai emnesthes on) “And they remembered,” or recalled, what He had repeatedly told should befall Him, upon the angel’s reminding them, Luk 24:32; Luk 24:45.
2) “His words,” (ton hrematon autou) “His extended and explicit words,” His precise words, Luk 18:31-34; Mat 17:22-23. And they at once realized the meaning of the emptiness of the tomb.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
Luk 24:8
. And they remembered his words; by which we are taught that, though they had made little proficiency in the doctrine of Christ, still it was not lost, but was choked up, until in due time it yielded fruit.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(8) And they remembered his words.It would be better to end the previous verse with a fullstop, and begin the next sentence, And they returned. . . .
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
‘And they remembered his words,’
All that Jesus had said now came flooding back to them. And now, how could they doubt that it was true? For they recognised that what the angels were telling them, about what Jesus had said, was undoubtedly true, which served to confirm that they knew what they were talking about. It is perhaps noteworthy that the angels were willing to give to the women as evidence the fact that they themselves had knowledge of what Jesus had taught them. It brought home to the women that they were not dreaming, and that these angels were genuine.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Belief of the women, unbelief of the apostles:
v. 8. And they remembered His words,
v. 9. and returned from the sepulcher, and told all these things unto the Eleven and to all the rest.
v. 10. It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
v. 11. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
v. 12. Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulcher; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. As the angels delivered their message, the women recalled the saying of Jesus perfectly. And there was no longer doubt in their minds, nor any uncertainty, but joyful trust and belief in the resurrection of their Lord. Christ was risen from the dead; God had raised His Child Jesus. The Master of life had taken His life out of death. He had reared up the temple of His body, which the Jews had destroyed, in three days. And thus He has been declared to be the Son of God with power, by the resurrection from the dead, Rom 1:4. And therefore He has also been proved to be the Savior of the world. He has torn asunder the fetters of death, He has destroyed the power of death. There is no need for the believers to fear death, for they may gladly say: Grave, where is thy victory? Death, where is thy sting? 1Co 15:55-57. Death has been conquered, and the sting of death, sin, has been taken away, 1Co 15:18-20. Christ was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification, Rom 4:25. All these gifts belonged to the believing women by faith on that first great Easter morning. But this same faith caused them to turn back from the grave, to return to the city, not all together, but in different groups, and to bring the message of all these wonderful things to the eleven apostles first of all, but also to the other disciples. There had been a considerable number of women at the grave, not only the three Marys, Mar 16:1, but also Joanna, Luk 8:3, and others. And they all, although at first almost stunned by the joyful news, proclaimed it to the followers of the Master. But on that morning the apostles were still too deep in the misery of their disappointment and in their grief at the death of Jesus. The words of the women seemed to them as idle tales, as nonsense and superstitious gossip, as foolish talk, which must not be taken seriously. Only Peter (and John, Joh 20:1-31: determined to see for himself just what the meaning of all this talk was. He arose and ran with all speed to the tomb. There he bent his body forward, without entering into the sepulcher, and saw the linen grave-clothes carefully laid away by themselves. The evidence was all against grave-robbery and the application of force. The situation was such as to set Peter thinking seriously and to wonder about what had really happened as he slowly returned to the city. The speech of the women and the evidence of the tomb spoke strongly in favor of the resurrection, but he was not quite ready yet to believe. Note: The resurrection of Jesus is the basis of the Christian’s hope and faith, but it is very hard for the Christian to put his trust in this glorious truth at all times. It means simple, childlike reliance upon the Word of God under all circumstances, and that is a gift of God, for which we must daily plead in importunate prayer.
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
8 And they remembered his words,
Ver. 8. And they remembered his words ] Which at first hearing they understood not, heeded not. So the new birth of some is like the birth of the elephant, fourteen years after the seed injected into the womb.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
words. Greek. Plural of rhema. See note on Mar 9:32.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Joh 2:19-22, Joh 12:16, Joh 14:26
Reciprocal: Mar 9:10 – they Joh 2:22 – his Joh 18:32 – the saying Act 11:16 – remembered Heb 12:5 – ye have forgotten
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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They remembered. This is more significant than might be at first realized. One form of evidence relied upon in the Bible, is the accomplishment of predictions that were made some considerable time previously. (See Exo 3:12 with 24:12, 13; Mat 3:11 with Act 11:15-16.)
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
2. Visit of Peter to the Sepulchre: Luk 24:8-12.
Vers. 8-12. As we have found the account given, Joh 20:14-18, in Matthew’s narrative of the appearance to the women, so we recognise here the fact which is related more in detail in Joh 20:1-10.
Luke says, Luk 24:9, that on returning from the sepulchre the women related what they had seen and heard, while, according to Mark (ver. 8), they kept silence. This contradiction is explained by the fact that the two sayings refer to two different events: the first, to the account which Mary Magdalene gives to Peter and John, and which led them to the sepulchre (Luke, Luk 24:12; Luk 24:22-24),a report which soon spread among the apostles and all the disciples; the other, to the first moments which followed the return of the other women, until, their fears having abated, they began to speak. But this contradiction in terms proves that at least up to Luk 24:8 Mark had not Luke before him.
The of the T. R., Luk 24:10, before is indispensable.
The omission of Luk 24:12 in the Cantab. and some copies of the Latin and Syriac translations appeared so serious a matter to Tischendorf, that he rejected this verse in his eighth edition. But if it were an interpolation taken from John, it would not have mentioned Peter only, but Peter and John (or the other disciple). And the apparent contradiction would have been avoided between this verse and Luk 24:24, where it is not an apostle, but certain of them (), who repair to the sepulchre. The extreme caprice and carelessness which prevail throughout cod. D and the documents of the Itala which are connected with it are well known. The entire body of the other Mjj. and of the Mnn., as well as most of the copies of the ancient translations, support the T. R. Some such historical fact as that mentioned in this verse is required by the declaration of the two disciples (Luk 24:24).
There is, besides, a striking resemblance between the account of John and that of Luke. The terms , , , are found in both.
Fuente: Godet Commentary (Luke, John, Romans and 1 Corinthians)
The women now remembered the predictions they had heard but had not understood. The Resurrection had begun to clarify many things that Jesus had previously taught His disciples (cf. Act 11:16). The women then returned to the Eleven and the other disciples with their news. The angels had been witnesses of the Resurrection to the women, and now the women were witnesses of it to the rest of the disciples. They in turn would be witnesses of it to the ends of the earth (Act 1:8). Luke probably wanted his readers to note this beginning of the Christian mission here.