Men and women of Jerusalem......something.....something has happened this morning! We don't know........  

     There is word that Jesus of Nazareth.....the one soldiers beat until his face was unrecognized......who died on a cross......we witnessed this....his body was placed in a tomb in this garden......before Shabbat.....

     Please hear me.....it's unbelievable.......Jesus may be alive!  

     A follower of him, a woman, went to the tomb early this morning.....What was she thinking?.......She wouldn't be able to roll back the heavy stone.....But when she got there the tomb was open. 

     Inside where the body was, there were strips of linen and burial cloth all folded up neatly.......not like someone in a hurry removed him....and where did the guards go, the ones there to prevent a break-in? 

     She was upset when someone standing there asked her why she is crying......The woman....I think her name was Mary....thought this someone had carried him away. 

     Then the man said, "Mary" .......she looked up and knew him. It was Jesus......alive.....as if he had not been beaten......He said something to her......something to tell his disciples.

     We don't know where his disciples are hiding from the Jews......but we wonder what Jesus is going to do.....Will he show himself to Pilate? ...... Make himself king of Israel?......Appear to the Pharisees? 

     Wait a minute.....I just remembered.....some time ago Jesus brought his friend Lazarus alive out of his tomb where he had been dead four days. Everyone who was there, including Pharisees, knew the truth.   

     Excuse me.....I'm out of breath......One thing is sure......This isn't the end we all thought......This is the beginning of something never known before over all the earth........