(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . pledgeourselves to make out the possibili;ty of the result ofthese accounts, , the origin of the belief of the resurrection of Jesus, without any corresponding miraculous is certain that the early Christians made no distinctionbetween the Easter Message and the Easter Faith. The ap-pearances to the women in John 20:14-18, ^.16;9 and Matt,28:9-10, to the apostles in L^oke 24:36, John 20: 19--^9 and|Mark 16-14, and to the apostles on the road to Emmaus - Luke24:13 f., and to the disciples in Gallilee - Matt. 28:l6,John 21 - speak of a
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . pledgeourselves to make out the possibili;ty of the result ofthese accounts, , the origin of the belief of the resurrection of Jesus, without any corresponding miraculous is certain that the early Christians made no distinctionbetween the Easter Message and the Easter Faith. The ap-pearances to the women in John 20:14-18, ^.16;9 and Matt,28:9-10, to the apostles in L^oke 24:36, John 20: 19--^9 and|Mark 16-14, and to the apostles on the road to Emmaus - Luke24:13 f., and to the disciples in Gallilee - Matt. 28:l6,John 21 - speak of a person who has risen in the body whichin some respects is identified with that which was cruollj-fled. j In the Gospel of luke there stand out three cardin-al features: a; the empty tomb, b) the message to the women,and c) the word brought through them to the waiting Magdalene, and after hecPeter and John, fin d the emp-ty tomb. ^ physical resurrection is the only kind whicl^their minds would accel)t. Any Jewish expectation would. 7. have been fulfilled by a resurrection such as that which | L-azarue experienced through the miraculous power of body subject to all the previous limitations of lifeand death, would have answered their understanding of aresurrection. The risen Jesus seemed to be released from some of the conditioning factors which bound Him inthe days when He walked with the disciples. (lAatt. 28:2jand John 20:25) He could now -ass through closed doors, and could be present rt no great interval in dif- ^irtant p^f^ces. \ It is Luke, also, who goes to the extreme of thenarrators in presenting the materialistic aspect of the ris-en Lord. In this, however, he is but giving expressionto a condition of the resurrection of Christ which all ofthe early Ciurch accepted. :;o doubt his statements that Jes-us partook of food when with the disciples on the shore ofGalilee - Luke 24:41 and Acts 10:41 - were written out ofhis intense earnestness to m
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