Early on Sunday morning Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph arrived at Jesus’ tomb immediately after a severe earthquake happened that was accompanied by what modern science would call an earthquake light or ball lightning, but that Matthew says was an angel who actually caused the earthquake by rolling away the…
On Resurrection Sunday a number of the women who had traveled from Galilee with Jesus to minister to His needs had arranged to go to the tomb where He was buried to further attend to His dead body that was hastily interred Thursday evening by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus as the sabbath rest required…
After three days of rest imposed upon them by the confluence of three consecutive sabbaths, during which there was nothing they could do to address the death of their Lord, on Sunday morning a number of women who had followed Jesus from Galilee made their way to the tomb. They came to complete the care…
On account of a supernatural confluence of natural events that resulted in three consecutive sabbaths on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for Jesus’ followers, all they could do on the day He was crucified and the days following while He lay in the grave was to rest and wait to see the great salvation God was…
It was Thursday evening of Passion week. Jesus had been raised upon the cross shortly before noon (Mar 15:25, Joh 19:14). His followers no doubt hoped that God would somehow rescue Him, but after seeing Him die a few hours later any such hopes were quickly replaced with thoughts of what would happen to His…
On Thursday afternoon of Passion week, around 3:00 pm as the Passover lambs were being slaughtered for the celebration that would begin at sunset, Jesus Himself expired upon the cross as the Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. He and His disciples had celebrated the Passover the previous day,…