The last chapter of Luke. Hope you've enjoyed this Advent/Christmas journey through Luke.
Luke 24: 1-12: The women show up with spices to prepare Jesus' body at the tomb. The stone was rolled away, and when they went in they could not find the body. Two men were there and began talking to them, and the women were terrified. Note how the the fear surrounding the birth of Christ reappears after his death. The two men tell them to remember what Jesus had told them about rising, and the women do. They go to tell the disciples, but the disciples won't believe them. Peter races back to the tomb to see for himself. Notice that he has to stoop to look in, which suggests that the tomb was dug out of the wall.
Only Luke has the story of Jesus meeting up with two guys on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24: 13-35).
When Jesus appears to his disciples, he seems to be something of a ghost. This seems different than how he appeared on the road to Emmaus, when the men did not recognize Jesus, but there was no mention of Jesus being ghostly. Does that mean that Luke has put together two different stories from different traditions? Is it two different stories that are emphasizing different things about the resurrected Christ, which leads to describing him differently?
Jesus ascends to heaven and the people are left still worshiping (24: 50-53).
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