Lesson 22 - The Resurrection of Jesus

• The story of Jesus did not end with His Passion and Death.
• The story of Jesus continues with His glorious Resurrection —His rising from the dead.
• In Mark 16:1-8, three women went to the tomb with the intention of anointing the body of Jesus.
• As they arrived at the site, they saw the stone covering the entrance of the tomb, rolled away.
• The women met an angel who proclaimed that, indeed, Jesus had risen.
• The women p received an order from the angel to go and tell the disciples and Peter of what they saw.
• This resurrection narrative can also, be read in Matthew 28:1-10 and in® Luke 24:1-12.
• The women went to anoint the body of Jesus on the first day of the week, also known today as Easter Sunday.
• The women found that the stone covering the entrance of the tomb had been rolled away.
• The women saw an empty tomb. The women received a message that Jesus had been raised from the dead.
• Christ's Resurrection is the central event of God's whole plan of salvation.
• In the risen Christ, "a new age has dawned, the long reign of sin has ended, a broken world has been renewed, and we are once again made whole."
• The Resurrection was basically Jesus' passage from death to a new, definitive glorified life.
• The Resurrection can be described from three points of view:

  1. an event in human history.
  2. as the glorified life of the risen Christ.
  3. as effected by the Blessed Trinity.
• Resurrection - the core Christian truth that Jesus rose from the dead.
• Hope is the efficient cause of why we always long for a resurrection after an experience of passion. An adage says, "There is a light at the end of the tunnel."
• Resurrection - the physical rising from death by Jesus, accomplished, as promised, through the power that was His as the Son of God.
• The Resurrection of Jesus is an essential part of the act of salvation.
• The death of Jesus and his Resurrection together constitute the mystery o redemption.