Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255-1319)
Jesus' Appearance While the Apostles Are at Table
Acts 3:12-19
Resurrection Intersection
It seems to me that Peter uses this occasion
To show the Jewish crowd there was a correlation
Between the death of Jesus by a crucifixion
And wounds of guilt which Peter speaks in malediction.
But though the crowd's denial must have felt familiar,
He also realized that life is now transfigured
When woundedness and healing form the intersection
Of what is still the power of Jesus' resurrection.
Scott. L. Barton
When
Peter saw it, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at
this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had
made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the
God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and
rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. But
you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to
you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this
we are witnesses. And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man
strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given
him this perfect health in the presence of all of you. “And now, friends, I
know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. In this way God
fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would
suffer. Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out….
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Luke 24:36b-48
Easter Meals
He asks for food, they give him fish,
Then they remember every dish
They ate with him along the way.
It is as if they hear him say,
"The loaves and fishes that you passed,
To feed a multitude, surpassed
What anybody would have guessed;
But that was just an alpha test
Which you, my friends, can now repeat.
You're witnesses none can defeat
The love for which I lived and died
(Although in killing me, they tried).
Go out to all the world to show
Forgiveness that will overflow,
As through you, everyone rethinks
How love is now your food, your drink."
Scott L. Barton
While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood
among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and
terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are
you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my
feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh
and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them
his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still
wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a
piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. Then he said
to them, “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, the prophets, and the
psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the
scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to
suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and
forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning
from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
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