He said to them,
Luke 24:35-48
“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And he said to them,
“Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer
and rise from the dead on the third day
and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,
would be preached in his name
to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things.”
We saw, but could not understand,
the works you did before,
until we saw your wounded hands
reach out to us once more.
We knew what every human knows,
that death would be our end,
but now we know you rose. You rose,
and reach for us again.
And in this hour, your life and death
rewrite the world we knew.
Your peace has touched us with your breath,
and all things are made new.
So we become your witnesses
who have received your peace,
who know what your forgiveness is,
who shared your paschal feast.
And we will go, who are sent out,
to tell what we have seen:
that every tomb is open now,
and we have been redeemed!
Jesus giving the Farewell Discourse (John 14–17) to his disciples, after the Last Supper, from the Maestà by Duccio, 1308–1311By Duccio di Buoninsegna – Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7922656
Kate Bluett 