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“He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay” (Matthew 28:6).
Before He went to the cross, the Lord Jesus had told His disciples that He would rise from the dead. They could not seem to understand this, but in our verses, the angels at the tomb remind the women who came to embalm Him that He had said it. Now, on the first day of the week, which the Bible later calls the Lord’s day, He had indeed risen from the dead. Later many people saw Him, for He did not ascend back to heaven for forty days.
The resurrection of the Lord Jesus is most important, for it showed that God was completely satisfied with the work He had done on Calvary’s cross. Now the gospel could be preached to the whole world, for God had also been glorified in that work on the cross. How glad the disciples were to see the Lord again! How happy we should be too, for His resurrection shows us that our salvation is absolutely sure.
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