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General Information:
This is the next part of the story. The women return to the tomb with spices to put on Jesus' body.
Very early on the first day of the week
"Before dawn on Sunday" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal)
they came to the tomb
"the women arrived at the tomb"
the tomb
This tomb was cut in the rock of a cliff.
bringing the spices
These were the same spices they prepared in Luke 23:56.
They found the stone
"They saw that the stone was"
the stone rolled away
This can be stated in active form. AT: "that someone had rolled the stone" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)
the stone
This was a large, cut, round stone big enough to completely block the doorway to the tomb. It required several men to roll it.
did not find the body of the Lord Jesus
You can state explicitly that they did not find it because it was not there. AT: "the body of the Lord Jesus was not there!" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)