Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 24:1-12
All Are Puzzled Over The Empty Tomb (24:1-12). When at last the time came for them to be able to go to the tomb, the women carried out the final preparations on the spices and ointments ,and as Mark suggests, having found that they had insufficient for the purpose among them, had to hurry out to buy more. Both activities were likely in the circumstances, for they would carry some with them, but as they were only in Jerusalem as visitors and would be unlikely to have with them all that was... read more
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 24:5-6
THE APPEAL OF EASTER‘Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen.’Luke 24:5-Joshua :There is a tone of gentle remonstrance in these words of protest against an unseasonable sadness on the day of earth’s greatest joy. ‘O ye of little faith,’ the angels would seem to say, ‘less faith than love, more dutiful than understanding, why come ye to anoint His body on the third day?’ I. Love surviving death.—And yet, remonstrate as they might, we feel that the angels recognised... read more