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Surely This Was the Son of God: An Empty Tomb and an Angel's Announcement | Mark 15–16; Luke 1–2
Episode Overview
Today we finish Mark and begin Luke. Mark's crucifixion account is spare and devastating: mockery, darkness over the land, and Jesus crying out my God, my God, why have you forsaken me—the opening line of Psalm 22, a psalm that ends in vindication. The curtain tears. And the first human being in Mark's Gospel to correctly identify Jesus as the Son of God is the Roman centurion who watched Him die. Then the women come to the tomb worrying about who will roll the stone away, and find it already moved.
Luke begins completely differently, with a formal dedication to Theophilus…
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