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BY TOM RAPSAS
It’s Easter week and if you attend church services on Sunday, you’ll likely hear the story of the resurrection of Jesus. It goes something like this: Jesus was crucified, he died on the cross, and was buried—and on the third day, Easter Sunday, he miraculously rose from the dead. But what really happened on that day over 2,000 years ago?
As it turns out, there isn’t one story about the events surrounding Jesus’s resurrection, there are several. In the Bible, there are actually two variations of the tale. One most churchgoers know about appears in the Gospel of John, but the Gospels of Luke and Mark tell a different story. And then there are a few stories from the Gnostic Gospels that paint a different picture altogether.
“Jesus, is that you?” The resurrection as reported by Luke and Mark.
The Gospel of John (John 20:24-27) contains what is probably the best-known narrative of Jesus’s resurrection. It features the doubting Thomas telling his fellow disciples “unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” At which point Jesus appears as a flesh-and-blood human being, inviting Thomas to “put your hand into the wound in my side. Don’t be faithless any longer. Believe!”
But in both the Gospels of Luke and in Mark (16:11), the story is a little stranger. Each of these gospels report that Jesus appeared “in another form.” It’s not the Jesus they knew, for he seems to have returned in the body of another man. According to Luke’s version, the disciples were deeply troubled after the death of Jesus and meet a man while walking on the road to Emmaus. They invite the man to dinner, at which point, they (shockingly) recognize him as Jesus.
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. ~Luke 24:30-31
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2024/03/the-untold-stories-of-the-resurrection-of-jesus/