Luke 24:1 (WEB)
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.
Catechism · 2
The Third Commandment
“Jesus rose from the dead "on the first day of the week."” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 28:1; Mk 16:2; Lk 24:1; Jn 20:1.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“Mary Magdalene and the holy women who came to finish anointing the body of Jesus, which had been buried in haste because the Sabbath began on the evening of Good Friday, were the first to encounter the Risen One.” — Catechism footnote: Mk 16:1; Lk 24:1; Jn 19:31, 42.
Fathers and councils · 29
Athanasius of Alexandria
“…is represented by Nicodemus and by Mary’s company, when the one came bringing ‘a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pounds weight;’ and the others ‘the spices which they had prepared’ for the burial of the Lord’s body.” — editor's note: John xix. 39; Luke xxiv. 1.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Now these are the symbols of the burying; and in the Gospels it is said, The women came unto the sepulchre bringing the spices which they had prepared: Nicodemus also bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
Chapter XXIV.—Of the Absence of All Discrepancies in the Narratives Constructed by the Four Evangelists on the Subject of the Events Which Took Place About the Time of the Lord’s Resurrection. 61. Matthew proceeds…
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark
“By “very early in the morning,” he means what another Evangelist expresses by at the dawning [Luke 24:1, dilueulo].” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“It was very meet that the man who buried the Lord should thus be noticed in prophecy, and thenceforth be “blessed;” since prophecy does not omit the (pious) office of the women who resorted before day-break to the sepulchre with the spices which they had prepared.” — editor's note: Luke xxiv. 1.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
Devout women not only on the day of preparation, but also when the sabbath was passed, that is, at sun-set, as soon as the liberty of working returned, bought spices that they might come and anoint the body of Jesus,…
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Now this place has caused great perplexity to many, because while St. Luke says, Very early in the morning, Matthew says that it was in the evening of the sabbath that the women came to the sepulchre. But you may…
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Or Matthew by the first part of the night, which is the evening, wished to represent the night itself, at the end of which night they came to the sepulchre, and for this reason, because they had been now preparing…
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The Instrument of the Word lay dead, but a great stone enclosed the sepulchre, as if death had led Him captive. But three days had not yet elapsed, when life again puts itself forth after a sufficient proof of death,…
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An angel had rolled it away, as Matthew declares.
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But the stone was rolled away after the resurrection, on account of the women, that they might believe that the Lord had risen again, seeing indeed the grave without the body. Hence it follows, And they entered in,…
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When then they found not the body of Christ which was risen, they were distracted by various thoughts, and for their love of Christ and the tender care they had shewn Him, were thought worthy of the vision of angels.…
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The messengers of the health-bearing resurrection and their shining garments stand for tokens of pleasantness and rejoicing. For Moses preparing plagues against the Egyptians, perceived an angel in the flame of fire.…
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But how is it that Mark has mentioned one young man sitting in white garments, and Matthew one, but John and Luke relate that there were seen two angels sitting in white garments.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
We may understand that one Angel was seen by the women, as both Mark and Matthew say, so as supposing them to have entered into the sepulchre, that is, into a certain space which was fenced off by a kind of wall in…
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The holy women, when the Angels stood beside them, are reported not to have fallen to the ground, but to have bowed their faces to the earth; nor do we read that any of the saints, at the time of our Lord’s…
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
He might indeed at once have raised His body from the dead. But some one would have said that He was never dead, or that death plainly had never existed in Him. And perhaps if the resurrection of our Lord had been…
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One day and two nights also He lay in the sepulchre, because He joined the light of His single death to the darkness of our double death.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Now the women, when they had received the sayings of the Angels, hastened to tell them to the disciples; as it follows, And they remembered his words, and returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things to the…
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It is not allowed to women to teach in the church, but they shall ask their husbands at home. (1 Tim. 2:12, 1 Cor. 14:35.) To those then who are at home is the woman sent. But who these women were he explains,…
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and Joanna, (the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward,) and Mary the mother of James, (that is, the mother of James the less, and Joseph.) And it is added generally of the others, and other women that were with them, which…
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For that the woman might not endure the everlasting reproach of guilt from men, she who had transfused sin into the man, now also transfuses grace.
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Now the miracle of the resurrection is naturally incredible to mankind. Hence it follows, And their words seemed to them as idle tales.
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Which was not so much their weakness, as so to speak our strength. For the resurrection itself was demonstrated to those who doubted by many proofs, which while we read and acknowledge we are through their doubts…
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Peter, as soon as he heard this, delays not, but runs to the sepulchre; for fire when applied to matter knows no delay; as it follows, Then arose Peter, and ran to the sepulchre.
Read the whole comment - Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
For he alone believed the women saying that they had seen Angels; and as he was of more ardent feelings than the rest, he anxiously put himself foremost, looking every where for the Lord; as it follows, And stooping…
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But now when he was at the tomb, he first of all obtained that he should marvel at those things which had before been derided by himself or the others; as it is said, And departed, wondering in himself at that which…
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Luke is supposed to have mentioned this concerning Peter, recapitulating. For Peter ran to the sepulchre at the same time that John also went, as soon as it had been told to them alone by the women, (especially Mary…
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According to the mystical meaning, by the women coming early in the morning to the sepulchre, we have an example given us, that having cast away the darkness of our vices, we should come to the Body of the Lord. For…
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Catechism §2174.
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 24:1–12 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 24:1–12 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2174 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §2174 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §2174 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 16:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 16:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 16:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 16:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 16:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 16:1–8 (2) (Catena Aurea).