(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . sies in which Jews tried to assert that Christiansh^ the body of ohrist. This story arose ag a naturalrefutation. It was, in the words of Professor Lake, a li fragment of controversy. The second event of the reconstruction is that Icentered about the tomb on the bhird day. no two ac-counts re .lly aerree. ihe . robability stronglyfavors ::ark, and others fall into place in an intelligibletho complicated of development. In regard to the!places of the appearances, Luke and John preferred the Jerusal-em tradition
(The) historicity of the resurrection of Jesus . sies in which Jews tried to assert that Christiansh^ the body of ohrist. This story arose ag a naturalrefutation. It was, in the words of Professor Lake, a li fragment of controversy. The second event of the reconstruction is that Icentered about the tomb on the bhird day. no two ac-counts re .lly aerree. ihe . robability stronglyfavors ::ark, and others fall into place in an intelligibletho complicated of development. In regard to the!places of the appearances, Luke and John preferred the Jerusal-em tradition an-< so adjusted their writings to this end. ||After his characteristic .nanner, John spiritualizes the re-surrection. It is to the Father to whon Jesus goes. It isat this point uhat Professor Lake fails to see much emphasisin Mark in regard to ohe empty tomb. He aoubts the precispform which is here met. it seems to him that the emptytomb is only a deduction from the more definitely statedevents of this section. Mark represents a nucleus of. 24. ij i history which folk-lore has developed. Here is no real |description of the resurrection, and the third day is jonly implied. He affirms that the women did not see theempty tomb, but that they were informed by a young man of theevents which had hap^:ened, and so returned to announce a |jmessage of the resurrection to the disciples. It is diffi-cult, however, to think that such a power as Christianitycould have its main issue arise from such a siraple misund^erstanding! .Ve nov; turn to the interesting events of the ap-pearances of the risen Lord. In hjs enumeration Paul ,jspeaks of six: to Peter, to the Twelve, to the five-hundred, to James, to all the gathered people, and finallyto Paul himself. As recorded by :.:atthew, :v!ark and John,t:ie place is in Galilee; but there are the records of theJerus:tlem appearances according to Luke, the Acts, and suys that it is more probable that the disciples fled toGalilee,
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