November 15

“Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.” (Acts 3:24)

It has always been a mystery to me when every disciple of Jesus Christ who was anywhere near Jerusalem, was not at the sepulcher on the morning of the third day after the crucifixion. Over and over again He told them that He would arise. One of the last things He said to them, as they were on their way to the Mount of Olives, was—“After that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.” But there is not one solitary passage that tells us that they had any expectation of His resurrection. It seems as if His enemies had better memories than His friends. When His body was laid away in the tomb, the Jews went to Pilate, and wanted him to make it secure; because, they said, “We remember that that deceiver said, while He was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.”