Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures… 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (NKJV)
…if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. – 1 Corinthians 15:14 (NASB95)
A Roman “Guard” consisted of at least soldiers
“Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go, make it as secure as you know how.” Matthew 27:64-65 (NASB95)
The stone is rolled away, not so Jesus could ,
but so that we could
And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it. And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. The guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men. – Matthew 28:2-4 (NASB95)
Now while they were on their way, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all that had happened. And when they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, and said, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.’ “And if this should come to the governor’s ears, we will win him over and keep you out of trouble.” And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, and is to this day. – Matthew 28:11-15 (NASB95)
(v.1) “First day of the week” is
They were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” – Mark 16:3 (NASB95)
(v.12) So Peter and the other disciple (John) started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. – John 20:3-4 (NIV)
(vv.13-18) Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. – John 19:25 (KJV)
Jesus likes it when I with Him about things He already (v.19)
(v.27) And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded (diermeneuo) unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. – Luke 24:27 (KJV)
The ancient Greek word for expounded (diermeneuo) has the idea of sticking close to the text He expounded, which means He stuck closeto the text. (Guzik)
…in the volume of the book it is written of me… – Psalms 40:7 (KJV)
“You search the Scriptures because you believe they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!”
– John 5:39 (NLT)
Jesus’ solution to their depression is a
His Focus:
(vv.28-30)
Notice: When Jesus is invited in He becomes the
But they urged him strongly (parabiázomai), “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. – Luke 24:29 (NIV)
Urged strongly: parabiázomai; fut. parabiásomai, to force. To press, compel, coerce, persuade (CWSB Dictionary)
Only manmade things in Heaven: (v.40)
Six Weeks Later (vv.49-53)