Notes: Dec. 2, 2021

Written above the cross

Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

Latin - for the law

Hebrew - for the Jews

Greek - for public reading

Statements on the Cross

Three groups:

• Compassionate
  • "Father forgive them"
  • "Be with me in paradise"
  • "Behold thy mother"
• Human
  • "Eli, Eli, why has thou forsaken me?"
  • "I thirst"
• Divine
  • "It is finished"
  • "Into thy hands I commend my spirit"

Burial

Joseph of Arimathea

Rich

Asks for Jesus' body, he gives up his family tomb which had never been used

He was willing to ask to give an honorable death to one who could be seen as an insurrectionist.

Nicodemus

Brings ointments and expensive spices

Women

Watching to see where Jesus is buried, so that they can come back later to take care of him

Sabbath

Guards are placed at the tomb in order to avoid faking his rising from the dead.

The disciples rested. Not much else is said about that day.

However, through modern revelation (D&C 138), we know that Christ initiated the work for the dead during that time.

Church of the Holy Sepluchure

Holds what most to be the site of the tomb and the site of the crucifixion. Shared by many different denominations.

The Garden Tomb

The place where Latter-day Saints go, as well as some Protestants.

However, "He is not here--for He is risen".

Resurrection

There were many witnesses of Christ's resurrection: *

Jesus made sure that they can't deny - "touch me, I'll eat and drink"

Christ has given us so many witnesses so that we can have some form of evidence that he has been resurrected.

"As it is now"

The body will come back "as it is now". If you were an infant, you will come back as an infant. If you were 80-years-old, you will come back as an 80-year-old. If you were missing an arm, you will come back without an arm.

Then, your body will develop until it reaches a "full measure of the stature of its spirit." It's not instantaneous, though.

We will come back in the same stature as we were laid in the earth.

Witnesses

Mary Magdalene

The first witness identified.

Later, other women saw Jesus resurrected on the way back to Jerusalem.

Two men on the way to Emmaus

God restrained their eyes, they don't recognize him

He blesses and breaks bread, they see the marks on his hands, they recognize him, he disappears

Peter

He appears to Peter in or near Jerusalem

Other appearances

1. 10 apostles
2. 11 apostles
3. Sea of Galilee (feed my sheep)
4. 500 brethren likely in Galilee
5. James
6. 11 apostles at time of ascension at Mt. Olives

Paracletos?

"Feed my sheep"

The Great Commission

All nations, every creature, including Gentiles