This is the ending to Friday's story. Jesus was beaten, and he suffered, and died for YOU and ME. You may think that he died and he was nailed on a cross, so what.... What if told you that after they took him down from the cross, that his arms were 9in. longer. This is the saddest and happiest story ever told. So today I'm going to talk about the happiest part....
After Jesus' death, the other prisoners that were on the crosses next to him were still alive, so the guards ripped the prisoner's legs of and they died from suffocation later that day. When they took Jesus down they wanted to make sure he was dead so, they stabbed him with a spear and immediately blood and water spilled out.
The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
John 19:34
There was a man that was a friend of Jesus named Joseph. He went to Pilot asking for Jesus' body. Pilot marvelled at Jesus' death. But he let Joseph have the body. He took Jesus' body to a grave and met Jesus' other friend Nicodemus there. Nicodemus had brought spices to wrap the body in. When they finished, they rolled a giant stone over the grave.
Jesus foretold that in 3 days he would rise again, so on the 2 day, the Chief Official went to Pilot asking him to put some guards in front of the tomb because the next day was the 3 day. Pilot agreed but, he did not want anything else to do with Jesus.
2 guards were positioned at the tomb that night. Early the next morning, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb. Before she got there the Rock was moved and light shown from inside the grave. The guards were so scared that they fell on their faces and became like dead men. Also when she got there, Jesus' body was gone.
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
John 20:1-2
After that, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb again, but this time Jesus was there. He spoke with her and told her to go tell the disciples
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
John 20:19-23
Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
John 20:24-29
Jesus abode with them for 40 days more, and then while he was praying, he ascended into heaven and angels came down and said that Jesus will come down again the same way he went to be with the father....soon.
I know Jesus is my lord and savior, is he yours. He came and died and rose again to save us from our sins. Please pray, and ask him for forgiveness. Thank you for reading. God bless!
To GOD be the Glory!
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