Taylor Knapp- 2018

One of my many favorite things about Easter time is the Easter egg hunts. There are many memories of going out and looking for eggs with family. One of the more recent memories I have of an Easter egg hunt is setting one up for a cousin (who is older than me). David, my brother, and I set up an Easter egg hunt for him. We stuffed eggs and made a map of where we hid them. He was over the moon that we remembered that he liked Easter egg hunts and hasn’t done one in years. We all had a great time that day. John 20 depicts a similar scene. Mary Magdalene went down to the tomb and saw that it was empty. So, she ran to Peter and John to tell them. She tells them that they moved his body and they don’t know where they have put him (vs. 2). I can imagine a little kid running up to their parents and saying there is nothing in any of their Easter eggs. “Mommy, where did all the candy go?” Or not being able to find any Easter eggs. “Where did you hide all of them? Where did they all go?” Many parents would go to investigate the lack of the Easter eggs. So, Paul, John, And Simon Peter go off to investigate. They go and find folded clothes and no body. John goes in and verse 8 says that “he saw and believed”. The parents would then believe their kids because they have seen. I love what Jesus says later in verse 29. “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.” I guess the great Easter egg hunt was the one with the disciples looking for Jesus. We all hunt for the greatest “Easter egg” of all time, Jesus. May we not only see him through the Bible and church, but through everything.

John 20:1–9 (NIV) “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. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)

John 20:29 (NIV) “Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”