J.E.T.S. — the empty tomb
Jerusalem, enemy attestation, testimony of women, Sunday worship.
On a napkin
- 1Jerusalem: the church was born in the city where the body should have been easy to produce.
- 2Enemy attestation: even hostile voices granted the tomb was empty and offered other explanations.
- 3Testimony of women: first witnesses in a culture that discounted them — not a legend-maker’s choice.
- 4Sunday: Jewish believers shifted the holy day. Something dated had to explain that.
Say this
If you were inventing a resurrection story in the first century, you would not start with women at an empty tomb in the city that could falsify it. That is how you tell the truth.
“You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here.”