Family Home Evening for Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21

 Read Luke 24:5–6

5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

Teach

After Jesus died, a man, named Joseph of Armethea, took Him down from the cross and laid Jesus in a tomb that he had bought for himself. A tomb is a stone cave with a stone bed inside, to lay the dead body on. The door of the tomb was a heavy stone that took several men to roll in front of the opening. Soldiers were placed in front of the tomb so that people couldn’t take the body of Jesus and claim that He had risen.

 Some of the women who followed Jesus also went with Joseph. They wrapped the body of Jesus in some cloth, used to bury the dead. They had to do this quickly, because it was almost the day of preparation for the Sabbath.

The day after the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them went to put the burial spices on Jesus. They prepared them to help Jesus’s body to smell better as it decayed. When they got to the tomb, all of the soldiers were asleep, and the stone was rolled away from the tomb. Afraid that some one had taken Jesus, they began to cry. That is when the angels said, “Why seek ye the living among the dead?He is not here, but is risen.”

When they

Discuss

What do the words “He is risen” mean to you and your family?

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