OUR FATHER WHOSE SON DIED AND ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD

The book of John chapter 20 verses 1 -  10 records the early morning hours that changed human history forever.

1 Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

The devoted Mary Magdalene visited the tomb that Jesusˋ body was placed in early but found that the large stone that blocked the entrance had been moved aside and the body of Jesus was not there. She raced to see the disciples to alert them that Jesusˋ tomb had been tampered with.

3 Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. 4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. 5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. 

8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. 9 For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.

The disciples scrambled back to the tomb and found that the tomb was open as Mary Magdalene had said. 

They looked in the tomb and saw the linens that had wrapped Jesusˋ body ( along with the separate one that was on His head ) were laying in the tomb.

They now believed that Jesus was not there as Mary had said but they did not put that fact together with the prophetic scripture that foretold that the Messiah would rise from the dead.

Amen.

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