On the road to Emmaus the risen Jesus joined two of His disciples who were debating the things that had happened over the past several days, trying to make sense of them in light of their hope in Him as the Messiah. They could not understand where His body was if He had been raised,…
On the road to Emmaus the risen Jesus has just joined two of His disciples as they were debating the recent events about Him. As with Mary Magdalene just earlier that morning, they didn’t recognize Him, for their eyes were holden (KJV) in this physical realm from seeing into the realm where it was plain…
Although Jesus’ resurrection was announced by the angels to the women very early on the day of First Fruits to establish the unfolding of God’s plan of redemption exactly on time, it wasn’t until later that day when He Himself began to appear to His disciples that the light of the truth began to dawn…
Luke identifies one of the men on the road to Emmaus as Cleopas (Luk 24:18) , who is most likely not the same as the Clopas John mentions as the husband of Mary (Joh 19:25) who was with Mary Magdalene at the sepulcher when Jesus was interred by Joseph of Arimathea (Mat 27:61), and again…
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…
On Sunday morning, Jesus’ resurrection from the dead was announced first by an angel to Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and then by two angels to another group of women who arrived shortly later. But because His body was missing, and the reality of the angelic visions faded like a…
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…
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…
On Sunday morning following Jesus’ passion—not at the breaking of the dawn when they discovered the tomb to be empty, but later after Peter and John had been informed and had themselves come to the tomb to see it was empty and then left—Jesus manifested Himself to Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James…
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph were the first to discover the empty tomb, but that didn’t immediately equate for them into our present understanding of Jesus’ resurrection. While they understood from Lazarus’ example that mortal life might be restored to one who had died, it was difficult for them to…