Luke Chapter 24 verse 4 Holy Bible
And it came to pass, while they were perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel:
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And while they were in doubt about it, they saw two men in shining clothing by them:
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And it came to pass as they were in perplexity about it, that behold, two men suddenly stood by them in shining raiment.
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And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
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It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
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And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that lo, two men stood by them in glittering apparel,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. To one company of women one angel appeared: to another, two. Mary Magdalene, a little later, saw two angels in white sitting, as it were keeping watch and ward over the sepulchre for a short time after the sacred form had left it. The words which these beings from another sphere spoke to the mourning women were slightly different, but the teaching was the same in each case: "He is not here, but is risen. Do you not remember what he told you when he was yet with you?" Van Oosterzee and Farrar repeat a beautiful passage from Lessing on this: "Cold discrepancy-mongers, do you not, then, see that the evangelists do not count the angels?... There were not only two angels - there were millions of them. They appeared not always one and the same, not always the same two; sometimes this one appeared, sometimes that; sometimes on this place,- sometimes on that; sometimes alone, sometimes in company; sometimes they said this, sometimes they said that."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Two men stood by them.--St. Mark and St. Matthew mention one only. Had St. Matthew given the two, it might have been urged by adverse critics that this duplication of phenomena, as in the case of the demoniacs (Matthew 8:28), and the blind men at Jericho (Matthew 20:30), was an idiosyncrasy of his. As it is, we must suppose that each set of informants--the two Maries, and the "others" from whom it seems probable that St. Luke's report was derived--described what they themselves had seen. At such moments of terror and astonishment, perception and memory are not always very definite in their reports.
