11/7/08 It would not do simply to announce that there was a man who had died, even who had died a particularly brutal death, and who had then been found to be alive. That is not the point. The gospel of the early church, of Paul, of the evangelists, is that the promises of the Jewish scriptures had come true in the resurrection. That is why Paul and others keep insisting that Jesus’ death and resurrection happened ‘according to the scriptures’, or in fulfillment of them.

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