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Go and Make Disciples: An Empty Tomb and a Gospel That Starts Again | Matthew 27–28; Mark 1
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Today we finish Matthew and start Mark. Matthew 27 moves through the trial before Pilate, the crowd choosing Barabbas, the mocking, and the crucifixion. Jesus cries out in the words of Psalm 22—my God, my God, why have you forsaken me—and the temple curtain tears from top to bottom, torn from the wrong end for human hands. A centurion who has watched the whole thing says surely he was the Son of God.
Chapter 28 gives the resurrection in Matthew's telling: an earthquake, an angel rolling back the stone and sitting on it, guards frozen with fear. The women are the first…
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