When the resurrected Jesus first manifested Himself to the group of His apostles, they were of no mind to believe it. Apart from John, who in spite of not understanding the nature of Jesus’ resurrection body had at the tomb believed (Joh 20:8), and Peter, to whom He had appeared earlier that afternoon, though perhaps…
When the resurrected Jesus first appeared to the group of His apostles Sunday evening His first words to them were, “Peace to you”. Nevertheless, because they rightly understood that mortal life could not be restored to Jesus’ dead body that had been beaten, crucified and then its life fluids drained from it, they were terrified. …
Although Jesus’ tomb was found empty Sunday morning and a number of His followers had seen visions of angels saying He was alive, with others claiming He Himself had appeared to them, still, by that evening, the majority of His apostles refused to believe it. Rationally, they understood that there was no way His crucified…
Although God had made clear through His angelic messengers first thing that morning, the Jewish day of First Fruits, that Jesus had risen from the dead, it wasn’t as clear to His followers as we imagine it must have been. Those visions quickly gave way to the reality that Jesus’ body was gone, and since…
Although angels had announced Jesus’ resurrection from the dead very early on that Sunday morning, first to the two Marys, and then to the other women who arrived later to assist them in completing the burial custom for His dead body, and He Himself had appeared later that morning to the two Marys, then to…
After having their eyes opened to recognize that it was Jesus who had been communing with them, revealing Himself to them from the Scriptures, the two disciples who had just arrived in Emmaus immediately arose and returned to Jerusalem to share with others what they had discovered: Jesus really was alive! Arriving back in Jerusalem…
Immediately after their eyes were opened to recognize Jesus, Luke says that He “became invisible from” (literal) the two disciples whom He had joined up with on the road to Emmaus. They didn’t at first recognize Him in His manifestation to them in His eternal, glorified, resurrected body that was spiritual in nature. But their…
On the afternoon of Resurrection Sunday two of Jesus’ disciples were debating the events of Jesus’ crucifixion, the discovery of the empty tomb that morning, and the report of an angelic vision saying He was alive. Although they wanted to believe, it made no sense how His battered body drained of its life fluids could…
On the first day of the week, three days after His crucifixion, the risen Jesus met two of His disciples on the road to Emmaus, a village about seven miles or a couple hours walking distance from Jerusalem. They were just debating the events of the past few days that culminated in the news of…
On the road to Emmaus Jesus appeared to two of His disciples. He wasn’t “disguised” so they couldn’t recognize Him, but in His spiritual, resurrected body, so that their eyes, accustomed only to seeing in the worldly realms, were prevented from seeing in the spiritual realm that this manifestation of His immortal body was Him. …