A Week in the Life of Jesus — The Resurrection (Easter Sunday)

The Passion Week series reaches its climax in Luke 23–24. The message begins in the grief after the crucifixion, noting the precise prophecies fulfilled — including the rich man's tomb of Isaiah 53, embodied in Joseph of Arimathea, a believer on the very council that condemned Jesus. The women come at dawn with spices, expecting a decaying body, and find an empty tomb that at first increases doubt rather than erasing it. The angels' rebuke — “why do you look for the living among the dead?” — recalls that Jesus had plainly foretold his resurrection. It is the women who first proclaim it; the men dismiss it as nonsense until Peter runs to see. The strongest argument offered for the resurrection is the transformation of the apostles — cowards who became martyrs. The teaching closes on a God still in the resurrection business, inviting anyone who has run from him to make today a homecoming.