This day is the most amazing day of the year. This is what it is all about - the Resurrection. Against all the odds, at times, seemingly against all the evidence, Jesus is raised from the dead, life conquers death, love conquers hate, hope conquers despair, and you and I and the whole of creation have been reconciled to God. The Resurrection, the pivotal event in history, the pivotal event in eternity, the one event all roads lead to, happened on this day nearly 2000 years ago.
'And in one day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the grave, when it was yet dark, and she saw the stone moved away from the grave.
Therefore she ran, and came to Simon Peter, and to another disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith to them, They have taken the Lord from the grave, and we know not, where they have laid him.
Therefore Peter went out, and that other disciple, and they came to the grave.
And they twain ran together, and that other disciple ran before Peter, and came first to the grave. And when he stooped, he saw the sheets lying, nevertheless he entered not.
Therefore Simon Peter came following him, and he entered into the grave, and he saw the sheets laid, and the sudarium that was on his head, not laid with the sheets, but by itself wrapped into a place.
Therefore then that disciple that came first to the grave, entered, and saw, and believed.'
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