"Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
"While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, 'Why do you seek the living One among the dead?'" Luke 23:55-24:5 NASV
Other translations ask "why do you seek the living among the dead," and it's a logical enough question. Why, indeed, go looking for a living person in a cemetary, especially when he told you he'd meet you in Galilee? But if, as the NASV puts it, the one sought is the Living God, then the idea is even more incongruous.
Why would the Living God be in a tomb? Why would the One who created life and gives life and sustains life be with the dead? This rendering of the angels' question shows the absurdity of disbelieving the resurrection and attests to the deity of Christ. As John 5:26 says, "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself." With God, life is irrespressible.
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