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Resurrection, New Creation
The key event for Christians is the Resurrection of Jesus.
That’s why Paul can proclaim in 1 Cor 15:17 “17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.”
Jesus’ Resurrection is the key event that all of Christianity is built upon.
In fact, all of history changed at the resurrection of Jesus.
All the gospel accounts speak about Jesus’ resurrection, but in true John fashion, John’s account is different.
He is focused on theological implications of Jesus’ resurrection.
In John’s resurrection account, Jesus is seen as being the creator of something new.
Something fresh.
A new day had dawned and the the world is forever impacted.
Empty Tomb
The first thing we need to notice here is that John tells us that all this happens of the first day of the week.
That would mean Sunday.
And not only does John tell us that, but each of the gospels make it a point to tell us that the resurrection happened on the first day of the week.
Rather than saying, 3 days after the crucifixion all the gospels want us to know that it was the first day of the week.
This has it’s theological impact forcing our minds to think about this being the beginning of something new.
Just like God created the world on the first day, He is creating something new on the First day of the week after Jesus’ resurrection.
Things have changed.
Things are different.
The world will never be the same.
John tells us that it was Mary Magdalene that was the first at the tomb.
She was there with others as indicated by her talking with Peter and John, but John’s account really focuses in on Mary.
This was an interesting choice by John, b/c Mary Magdalene was first mentioned at the crucifixion and then here at the resurrection.
She wasn’t a key player in the gospel.
She wasn’t a key disciple in John’s gospel.
She wasn’t anyone of any concern for John until the crucifixion and the resurrection.
This helps to establish the historical account.
John had no reason to insert Mary here unless these events actually occured.
Unless he was grounding what he was writing in actual history.
So, Mary came to the tomb when it was still dark and noticed that the stone was rolled away.
And her first instinct, was not to believe Jesus was risen, but was to believe the grave had been robbed.
That’s what she told Peter and John when she rushes back to them.
“They’ve taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him.”
She is hysterical at this point.
She is overwhelmed with the reality that something has happened to her teacher.
Something had happened to someone she cared deeply about.
The first disciples didn’t expect or anticipate the resurrection.
In the years of following Jesus they didn’t expect that something like this would happen.
So when the stone is rolled away and the tomb is empty the only rational course of thought is that someone took his body.
The Jewish people take burial and the preservation of the dead body seriously.
They believed the body to be sacred and any interruption of the dead was shameful.
At the announcement that something was wrong at the tomb, John and Peter set out to check on it.
Empty Tomb
John and Peter run to the tomb, and John records that he beat Peter.
He was quicker and probably a little younger.
But he wanted to keep this little tidbit in to jab at Peter as friends would.
When John gets to the tomb he’s a little timid about going in, but he looks in and sees that the linen cloths are still there.
Shortly there after, Peter comes to the tomb and enters in w/o a second thought.
Peter also sees the linens.
What’s going on with the linens?
Why are they mentioned?
A couple of reasons.
First, the linens being there mean that the grave wasn’t robbed.
The Robbers would have taken the clothes.
or at the very least the clothes wouldn’t have been neatly folded.
The scene was orderly, not wild or messy.
Secondly, Jesus’ resurrection was being contrasted with Lazarus’ Resurrection.
When Lazarus came out of the tomb, the linens needed to be taken off.
John 11:44 “44 The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and let him go.””
Jesus’ resurrection was therefore wholly different from Lazarus’
So how did those linens end up that way in Jesus’ tomb.
There’s some speculation but either Jesus took off the grave clothes then placed them back.
But with the 75lbs of spices on him, that would have been a difficult task.
So most likely, Jesus, in some miraculous way passed through the clothes leaving them there.
It sounds far-fetched, but we will also read later that he entered into a room where the door was locked.
But we will also read later that he ate and cooked.
So he wasn’t a ghost, or incorporeal.
So Jesus’ resurrected body, though similar to pre-crucifixion, was also different.
One of the mysteries we get to hang on to.
And lets not over look this either, the fact that two men saw the exact same thing made it, according to Jewish law, admissible in Jewish Court.
DT 19.15 “15 “One witness cannot establish any iniquity or sin against a person, whatever that person has done.
A fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
But what impact did the empty tomb have on Peter and John?
Empty Tomb
This is a tale of two men.
Peter and John are often placed in contrast to one another in the last Part of John’s Gospel.
John the faithful, Peter the bold coward.
And this is put on display here too.
John saw and believed.
Peter didn’t.
But what did John believe?
He believed that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God.
He believed what he had heard.
He believed what he had saw.
He believed in the promises of Jesus.
But notice, John believed before he saw Jesus.
He believed at the empty tomb.
He believed.
The whole point of this gospel is that we would believe.
And that our belief would have to be without seeing.
B/c Jesus ascended back to the father.
Not only that, John believed b/c of what he saw.
The grave clothes were still there.
He believed before he understood the scriptures.
He believed b/c the Christian Faith is built around an event.
The Resurrection.
John is the only one that reached a point in believing at seeing the empty tomb.
But here’s something also.
The resurrection is going to change the way they read and interpret the scriptures.
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