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“And the angel answered…I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay” (Matthew 28:5-6).
The resurrection of the Lord Jesus is one of the most wonderful events in the history of this world. Prior to His resurrection, others had been raised from the dead in both the Old and the New Testaments. But no one had ever raised Himself from the dead, as the Lord Jesus did. No one had ever come back to life and left the grave as He did. As God, He could say of His life, “I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again” (John 10:18). When the Lord Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11), he came out of the grave “bound hand and foot with graveclothes” (John 11:44), but the Lord Jesus came right out of His graveclothes.
Also, He did not need anyone to remove the stone, so that He could get out of the tomb. No, as God He would simply go through that stone. The angel rolled away the stone so that the women and the disciples could see inside the tomb, and even go inside. But the angel did not need to roll away the stone so that the Lord Jesus could come out. He had already risen!
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