I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Luke 23-24

One of the phrases in the Bible which most powerfully effects me is in today’s passage.  On the first day of the week after Jesus’ crucifixion, the women who had followed Him from Galilee went to the tomb where His body had been laid.  They found the stone in front of the tomb rolled aside.  So, they went in and discovered that the body was missing.  Two men suddenly appeared in the tomb with them and asked them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”  The two men went on to remind the women that Jesus had said that He would rise on the third day.

Part of me wants to go on and write about the rest of this passage and the fact that Luke highlights that the women believed, but the men did not, but I keep coming back to that question, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”  They knew Jesus was dead.  After all, they had watched Him die on the cross and seen His body taken down and placed in this tomb.  How could He not be here? What did those two men mean when they said He had risen? And yet, they remembered He had said He would be crucified and rise again on the third day.  They had thought it was some kind of metaphor at the time, but maybe, just maybe it wasn’t.  He had died, they had seen Him die.  Yet, here they were being asked, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”

I don’t know if I have made the point I am trying to make, but I will ask one more time, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”