What do we say about resurrection?

The Gospel of Mark ends with the young man sitting in the tomb saying, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you.”

​So naturally the women who heard him fled away in terror and amazement. This is a pretty lousy ending to the Gospel, and Mark really does end there. The sixteen verses following this scene were added later because, well, it was a pretty lousy ending to the Gospel. The church wants to focus on the victorious resurrected Jesus. We want to see Jesus. The thing is, Mark says, if you want to see Jesus, you need to follow him to Galilee, where the work of living as disciples of Christ begins.

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