< Luke 24 >

Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week so that when the women came to the sepulchre early in the morning they found the stone moved from the entrance. v.2Waiting for response for Luke 24:2 It is profitable to collate the information we are given in the four gospels about these events because we then get a complete picture, with every element agreeing together. When the women found the tomb empty, Mary Magdelene v.10Waiting for response for Luke 24:10 immediately ran to Peter and John who rushed to the tomb. In the meantime angels spoke to the other women vs.4-8Waiting for response for Luke 24:4-8 who went to tell the remaining apostles and disciples.v.9Waiting for response for Luke 24:9

Jesus himself also met with the disciples the same day he rose from the dead. He met first with Mary Magdelene when she returned to the tomb, to the other women as they went to tell the disciples the angels’ message, to Peter alone,v.34Waiting for response for Luke 24:34 to two disciples on the road,v.15Waiting for response for Luke 24:15 and finally to the disciples in the upper room.v.36Waiting for response for Luke 24:36 Certainly there was no lack of evidence that Jesus himself was alive again, a man of flesh and bones v.39Waiting for response for Luke 24:39 who ate with his disciples v.43Waiting for response for Luke 24:43 and who was handled by them.1 John 1:1Waiting for response for 1 John 1:1 Blood is not mentioned because he no longer had a body whose life is in the blood, but he now had a spiritual body energised directly by the power of God, having become a partaker of the divine nature. The promise is that when he returns he will transform the body of each disciple into this same glorious body Philippians 3:21.Waiting for response for Philippians 3:21

The disciples had trusted that he was the Messiah and would redeem Israel v.21Waiting for response for Luke 24:21 and did not understand why he had been crucified, but Jesus explained it to them, providing evidence from the Old Testament scriptures that both the suffering and the glory to follow were foreordained by God:v.26Waiting for response for Luke 24:26 “Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself”.v.27Waiting for response for Luke 24:27 Thus their understanding was opened and they declared: “Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?” v.32Waiting for response for Luke 24:32 This is the experience of all those who have their eyes open to the truth. We can read the Old Testament scriptures, all written before Jesus was born, and see the suffering and glory of Christ revealed hundreds of years beforehand, and rejoice in this knowledge. And so Jesus also opened the eyes of the disciples in the upper room, saying: “These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures”.vs.44-45Waiting for response for Luke 24:44-45

These disciples were to be witnesses of his resurrection v.48Waiting for response for Luke 24:48 and take his message to all nations v.47Waiting for response for Luke 24:47 that through his name men and women might obtain repentance and remission of sins.v.47Waiting for response for Luke 24:47 Therefore, after Jesus ascended to heaven,v.51Waiting for response for Luke 24:51 they were endued with power from on high, as recorded in Acts 2, and they fulfilled their commission, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and the things concerning the name of Jesus Christ, first to the Jews and then to Gentiles throughout the world.