Suits me - updated

This morning I read the four gospel accounts of events immediately following the discovery of Christ's resurrection:


"Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!" So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb." -John 20:1-3

"When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others." -Luke 24:9

"But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.' " - Mark 16:7

"Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me." - Matthew 28:9-10


Look, if the resurrection wasn't a literal event, but a hoax pulled off by cunning disciples eager to suffer agonizing deaths as martyrs for the lie they created, or a total fiction tacked on to gospel accounts centuries later by diabolical scribes in a basement, then Christianity itself must be an utter farce ... which would make believers the most spectacularly misguided and deceived population of people ever to live on the planet. There's just no room for ambiguity here.

But if his resurrection was real and Christ did rise from the dead, then there's no ambiguity either that the Messiah's resurrection stands alone as the single-most spectacular event since creation.

What struck me in re-reading the gospel accounts was that none of the people who first witnessed the most awesome and powerful event in human history were told, Go to the others and tell them what you have seen, but first dress yourselves appropriately in your best ... which shall mean hereinafter suits and ties for men, and calf-length skirts for ladies.

I just get the feeling there was too much joy and excitement filling the empty tomb that Sunday morning for any of the first-hand witnesses of God's awesome power to even start thinking about their appearance, or cause them to stay home that day because "I just don't have anything to wear!"

Much less notice what anyone else happened to be wearing, either.


Matthew 28:5-10
Luke 24:1-12
Mark 16:1-7
John 20:1-8