The tomb was empty.
He is not here:
for he is risen.
The empty tomb is the historical witness to the resurrection of Jesus. On the first day of the week the stone was rolled away and the body was not there. The angel said, He is not here: for he is risen. The empty tomb confirms that Jesus truly died, was buried, and rose again. It is the foundation of the apostolic witness and of the gospel.
- The tomb was empty on the third day.
- He is not here: for he is risen.
- The stone was rolled away.
- The empty tomb confirms the resurrection.
- Witnesses saw the place where the Lord lay.
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.
He is not here:
for he is risen,
as he said.
Come, see the place
where the Lord lay.
- Matthew 28:6 is the angel’s declaration.
- John 20:1-8 records Peter and John finding the tomb empty.
- Luke 24:1-6 records the women at the empty tomb.
- The empty tomb was sealed and guarded, yet empty.
- The resurrection appearances followed the empty tomb.
- Without the empty tomb there is no resurrection.
- Empty – The body was not there.
- Third Day – Found empty on the first day of the week.
- Witness – Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
- Sealed – Yet the stone was rolled away.
- Resurrection – He is risen.
- Gospel – The historical foundation of the good news.
- Matthew 28:6 – “He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”
- John 20:1-8 – “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early… and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre… Then went in also that other disciple… and he saw, and believed.”
- Luke 24:1-6 – “They found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre… He is not here, but is risen.”
- Mark 16:5-6 – “And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man… And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here.”
- Matthew 27:66 – “So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.”
- Acts 2:24, 31 – “Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death… neither his flesh did see corruption.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:4 – “And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”
- Romans 1:4 – “Declared to be the Son of God with power… by the resurrection from the dead.”
- John 20:6-7 – “And seeth the linen clothes lie, and the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.”
- Luke 24:12 – “Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves.”
- Matthew 28:2 – “And, 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.”
- Acts 13:30 – “But God raised him from the dead.”
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
The stone taken away from the sepulchre.
The tomb was empty. He is not here: for he is risen. The empty tomb is the witness to the resurrection of Jesus.
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