A chiasm is a literary structure where vocabulary of the first section of a passage is repeated in reverse order in the second. The center of the chiasm is typically the climax of the passage. In Luke 24:1-12 the center and climax is the angels at the empty tomb reminding the women that Jesus had said “that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again” (Luke 24:7).