12/31/2023 0 Comments Jesus three days laterGod’s plan was, and has always has been, about restoring and renewing this world – and his plan has always involved us. Jesus's disciples finally clicked that he was talking about himself. The temple was where God resided and Jesus had mentioned that “the temple” would be destroyed and rebuilt in three days. However, when the tomb was found empty, they started to put things together – especially things that Jesus had said. Their hopes were crushed when Jesus, their leader, was executed. At his trial, some of them still thought that Jesus was going to lead a physical revolution – that the Romans would be overthrown and that God’s Kingdom or rule would be established by force. God had been putting another plan into action that was bigger and better and more exciting than anyone had imagined so much so that even Jesus's closest disciples had not fully understood what was going on. Yet three days later, the tomb in which Jesus’s body had been laid, was empty. Some of his disciples were fishermen and they went back to their boats even Peter, who said he would follow Jesus anywhere, eventually fled when he was recognised as a buddy of Jesus. Jesus’s friends and his followers completely deserted him – they decided that he was not the saviour that everyone thought was going to free the people. ![]() He was nailed to a cross and left to die. Therefore it is because of this one thing – and because of nothing else – that Jesus was tortured and crucified. In first-century Palestine, such a claim was considered to be blasphemy and a crime punishable by death. They could not come up with a single charge, apart from one, and this was that Jesus had suggested that he was God. ![]() If your whole life was on trial, do you think that anyone from any period in your life could come up with a single thing that you had ever done wrong? Yet, when Jesus stood trial for his life, no one could think of a single thing he had ever done wrong. It hurt deeply, however I was, after all, guilty. As a punishment, the headteacher asked all my fellow pupils to ignore me and not to speak to me for a whole day. ![]() And so the next morning, in the school assembly, I was made to stand and be publicly shamed in front of everyone. Little did we know that the deputy headteacher had heard about what we had done, and when we arrived back at the school, he asked both Matthew and I if we had done the dastardly deed. In the car that followed behind the bus, two punks started sticking two fingers up at us and so, giggling, we returned the favour. When I was about eight years old I was sitting with my friend Matthew on the back seat of our school bus, staring out of the rear window. Three days after Jesus’s death, his tomb was empty
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