Re:Verse passage – Luke 24:36:-43; John 20:26-29 (day three)
“See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.”
The first disciples believed in God, whom they had never seen, so they did have the ability to believe without sight. And Elijah’s and Elisha’s bringing back the dead, and a dead man living again after grazing Elisha’s bones – they believed these accounts. They had seen Jesus raise Lazarus and the son of the widow in Nain. So resurrection wasn’t off limits in their belief system. But this experience with a person they had known and loved and who had upended their lives for three years – this brought resurrection fully into the mainstream. Resurrection wasn’t just a rare miracle anymore. It was now the only way the human race would go on. All who count on Christ will be raised. Good news takes a while to sink in.
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