On The Road to Emmaus: What are you so concerned about? Luke 24:17 As they talked and discussed these things, Jesus himself suddenly came and began walking with them. But God kept them from recognizing him….. “We had hoped he was the Messiah who had come...
He is risen. He is risen indeed! Early Sunday morning one of the friends comes back with rags and a jug of water and a box of the grave spices that are supposed to cut down on the smell. She’s braced for the task. But when she comes to the grave she finds...
Saturday, Jerusalem, Circa 33 AD It is the Jewish Sabbath. The city is quiet. The air above the city lacks the usual thousand little trails of smoke from cookfires. Hymns rise from the temple. Families are indoors. The soldiers are back in their barracks. The Chief...