The women were terrified; but, as they stood with their faces bowed to the ground, the men said to them, »Why do you search among the dead for Him who is living?
She was greatly agitated at his words, and wondered what such a greeting meant.
At this they were in great perplexity, when suddenly there stood by them two men whose raiment flashed like lightning.
He is not here. He has come back to life. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,
But God has raised Him to life, having terminated the throes of death, for in fact it was not possible for Him to be held fast by death.
Moreover here frail mortal men receive tithes: there one receives them about whom there is evidence that he is alive.
I died; but I am now alive until the Ages of the Ages, and I have the keys of the gates of Death and of Hades!
»To the minister of the Church at Smyrna write as follows:« `This is what the First and the Last says–He who died and has returned to life.