John 20:19–23
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
It is not a feel-good ending tacked on to a tragedy to make us all feel better. It is the explosion that ripped the hinges off of history. It is the event that defines all other events. Before the resurrection, we have a world locked in a tomb, a world under the dominion of sin, death, and the devil. But it is one thing for us to say this with two thousand years of hindsight, and quite another to be one of the disciples on that first Easter evening. They were huddled together in a locked room, hiding from the very people their Master had just conquered. Fear is a powerful tyrant, and it locks doors from the inside. It tells you that the worst-case scenario is the only realistic scenario. The disciples were men who had abandoned their Lord, scattered like sheep, and now they were waiting for the hammer to fall on them as well.