Luke 24:27 (Jesus Explains the Things Concerning Himself in All the Scriptures)

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On the road to Emmaus, the risen Jesus joined two of His disciples, unrecognized by them, as they were discussing the things that had happened over the past few days and that culminated that morning in the discovery of the empty tomb.  They had believed in Him as the Messiah who would deliver Israel, but…

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Luke 24:16-18 (Arrested Eyes, Cleopas and Clopas and Mary)

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As the sun rose on Resurrection Sunday another light of dawn was also breaking forth to dispel the impenetrable darkness of death through which man could not see and that the devil had used to enslave the world; Heb 2:14-15.  At first there were the angelic proclamations to the women at the tomb announcing the…

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Luke 24:13-34, 1Corinthians 15:5 (To Whom Jesus Appeared Next)

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Although God made clear first thing Sunday morning—the day of first-fruits—that Jesus had risen from the dead as the first-fruits of the resurrection (cf. Lev 23:10-11), it took time for His disciples to actually believe it.  For thinking only in terms of the physical resuscitations from the dead they had seen, they had yet to…

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John 20:18, Mark 16:10-14, Luke 24:11 (First Responses to the Resurrection Reports)

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Although we tend to equate the discovery of the empty tomb and the appearance of angels at daybreak on Sunday morning with Jesus’ resurrection, in fact it didn’t immediately add up that way for the women who had come to complete the burial custom for Jesus’ corpse.  The singular nature of the angelic vison quickly…

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