This past Sunday, we celebrated Easter Sunday. We didn’t celebrate the Easter bunny, but instead we celebrated the most miraculous moment in all of history: the resurrection of Jesus. This was when Jesus had conquered the grave so that we can have eternal life with Him. How amazing is that? There is nothing like the resurrection of Christ. The prophecies that were mentioned in the Old Testament have now been fulfilled by this moment. Jesus not only spread His good news to all the people, but He also did what He said He was going to do. He conquered death and came back from the dead. Death didn’t win, but instead life won.
While the gospel writing speak about the resurrection based on different viewpoints, Luke’s account gives a different perspective of the resurrection. This chapter, much like Matthew, Mark, and John, explains the events that followed the resurrection of Jesus. In Luke’s account, verse 1 uses the phrase “Sunday morning.” It is interesting that the NLT translation uses this phrase while other translations use the phrase: “on the first day of the week, very early in the morning.”
Luke 24:1-12 NLT Translation
“1. But very early on Sunday morning[a] the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. 3 So they went in, but they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.5 The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? 6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man[b] must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”8 Then they remembered that he had said this. 9 So they rushed back from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened. 11 But the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn’t believe it. 12 However, Peter jumped up and ran to the tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings; then he went home again, wondering what had happened.”
Dear Heavenly Father,
I thank You for Your Son Jesus who made the sacrifice for all of humanity. Not only that, but I thank Jesus for conquering death and rising from the dead three days later. It is because of Your Son that we can have life with You. It is because of Your Son that we have a home. Thank You God for Jesus Christ.
In His name I pray,
Amen