Easter Day
Easter Day Luke 24:1-12 So the women came running in with a story that Jesus was risen. Admittedly, the story must have been a bit garbled. It’s not that they’ve seen him, they’ve seen, more to the point, where he isn’t. The stone rolled away – more, I imagine, to allow the women to see the evidence of where Jesus wasn’t, than as a means of exit for the Risen One himself who, as the following days will reveal, has become remarkably good at sudden entrances and exits. They’ve seen where Jesus isn’t – the empty tomb which all four gospels emphasise as the ground zero of resurrection faith. Something has happened here. They’ve seen where Jesus isn’t, and they’ve heard some startling news. Two messengers in white, Luke wants us to notice, probably because in the law of the land at the time, two witnesses make a case. But the apostles, the ones on whom it all depends now, the founding fathers of our faith, aren’t having a bar of it. Hysterical nonsense, wishful thinking. There’s a ...