They were terrified and bent their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look among the dead for him who is alive?
I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.
Then to the angel of the church at Smyrna write thus: — These are the words of the First and Last, who was dead and came to life:
Again, it is mortal men in the one case who receive tithes, while in the other it is one of whom the witness is that 'he lives.'
At this she was startled; she thought to herself, whatever can this greeting mean?
They were puzzling over this, when two men flashed on them in dazzling raiment.
He is not here, he has risen. Remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee
but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him.