“There’s nothing to see here.” Actually, there really is. The miracle of this gospel account is that each person making their way to the tomb finds nothing at all – no body of Jesus, no angels, not even a note, but only some empty, discarded cloths.

Jesus died on the Feast of the Passover. This is no accident or coincidence. It’s one of the biggest events of the Jewish calendar for a reason. The Passover feast revisits the “Great Escape” of the Jewish people from Egypt, when the angel of death took the life of every first born in Egypt but “passed over” those whose homes had been smeared with the blood of a lamb.