Assurance of Jesus’ Resurrection

What was the reaction of Jesus' enemies to the disciples' stunning declaration that   Jesus was alive again after having been publicly executed?   

        Their reaction is very revealing. Did they respond that the disciples were lying,  that Jesus' body still lay in the rock-hewn tomb? No. Did they claim that  the disciples were hallucinating? No. Instead, they bribed the Roman soldiers responsible for guarding the sealed tomb to
spread what they knew was a lie. They told them to spread a cover story, to claim that Jesus' disciples had come and stolen His body while they slept, and that they would cover for the soldiers if they got in trouble with the Roman governor.   

        This was the best excuse the authorities could come up with to explain why Jesus' body was missing and could not be found!  Here we have evidence from the very enemies of Christ
that His tomb was empty. The best rationale they could come up with they knew to be a lie. There is no other explanation for how the tomb became empty except that Jesus was resurrected bodily and left the tomb.  On multiple occasions and under various circumstances individuals and groups of     
people saw Jesus alive after His resurrection, knowing that He had died.   

Assurance of Jesus’ resurrection

We can be assured that the length of His entombment that Jesus gave as proof He was the Messiah was exactly as long as He foretold. Jesus rose precisely three days and three nights after He was placed in the tomb.  Because most do not understand the biblical high days Jesus Christ and His followers kept, they fail to understand the chronological details so accurately preserved for us in the Gospels.