Choosing to believe when we don’t have to
Easter 2B | John 20:19-31
There’s a gap between the empty tomb and this moment. A small one. We fill it easily.
Mary goes from speaking with Jesus, returns to the disciples, and tells them what Jesus has said.
While we know this happens—the text says as much—but we don’t get to see it ourselves. We don’t get to hear about their reactions to the Good News of the risen Christ.
Reactions in the moment—first, to Peter and John’s statements about the empty tomb, and then after, to Mary’s words about Jesus. How he spoke to her. And how he would meet them all back there.
There, in the upper room. The place they last gathered on Thursday evening, hours before the day we’d come to call Good Friday.
The place of the Last Supper. Of the last teachings and communing. The final word on what it is all about.
And also reactions after the moment. How they reacted to the Good News in their own actions.
We don’t see any of this, but we do know it happens…
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