Series: Flowers in the Desert
Luke 24:1-12 ESV
Luke 24:28-31 ESV
Luke 24:36-45 (Jesus met the Disciples and they did believe)
We cannot know the sadness and pain God the Father experienced when God the Son suffered and died. What we do know is that they are ONE. Father, Son, Spirit are One. What one suffers all suffer. As a child I could not understand the truth of three but one.
I’m also not sure we can fully grasp the sadness and despair the disciples experienced when Jesus was crucified.
Many of them were certain He would completely change their lives under Roman rule. Some believed He would defeat the Roman Empire.
For certain, Rome believed He was a danger to the Empire.
Even so, the women who followed Jesus continued to care for the body of Jesus even after he died. Because they were unable to attend to the body of Jesus on the Sabbath according to Jewish Law (Six PM Friday through Saturday Six PM) they waited until early morning on the the first day of the week (Sunday) to attend to the body.
Luke 24:1-12 says,“But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.”
Note that the women who went to the tomb remembered what Jesus told them before He was crucified, but the men didn’t believe them.
Peter was a curious sort, and Luke reported that Peter did go to see the tomb. He saw the stone rolled away. He found the linen clothes that had been wrapped around His body. Peter did go to the other disciples and report that Jesus was not in the tomb.
Still, he wasn’t fully convinced. Later on the Road to Emmaus, two men met a man on the road and Jesus appeared to them. They did not recognize him but then, “they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther, but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. (Luke 24:28-31).
In Luke 24:36-45 Jesus met with the disciples and they saw the nail scars in his hands and feet but they did not understand until Jesus opened their minds to realize it was Jesus who had been crucified.
They final believed, He IS Risen.
As part of this series the final plant in the desert is not just one plant, but several plants. The resurrection plant is any Poikilohydry plant that can look dry and dead but revives itself with a small amount of water.
Once what was dead is now alive.
Jesus is risen indeed!
Spiritual Practice: In their shoes
Put yourself in the disciples’ shoes. Imagine how you would have responded when the body disappeared from the tomb!
In God, Deborah
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