And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
Parallel translations
- WEB They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
- BSB They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
- NKJV But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
- NASB And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
- NLT They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
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Quick answer
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. The first sign that something extraordinary had occurred greeted them.
Overview
The women discover the heavy sealing stone already moved aside. This unexpected sight begins the unfolding revelation of the resurrection. The rolled-away stone did not let Jesus out so much as let the witnesses in, inviting them to see that the tomb could no longer hold the Lord of life.
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Cross-references · 5
- Mark 15:46–47And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
- Matt 27:60–66And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
- Matt 28:2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
- Mark 16:3–4And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
- John 20:1–2The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
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