I find it fascinating that nowhere in the New Testament do the disciples try to explain the resurrection.  They did not need to.  The resurrection explained them!  The entire New Testament itself plus all of the subsequent history of the Church over the past two thousand years is but a commentary on Jesus’ words, “I am the resurrection and the life!” (John 11:25)

Let’s take a look at how these words first came to be spoken.  In John 11 we have the touching story of the miraculous raising of Jesus’ friend Lazarus from the dead.  Many details of the story are puzzling to us, and some scholars are not even sure whether the author intends for us to take it as a literal historical event, but whatever our conclusion may be on that score, we must recognize that it was put into the Gospel to proc…