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马太福音28:1-4：安息日将尽，七日的头一日，天快亮的时候、抹大拉的马利亚和那个马利亚来看坟墓。2忽然地大震动，因为有主的使者从天上下来，把石头滚开，坐在上面。3他的像貌如同闪电，衣服洁白如雪。4看守的人就因他吓得浑身乱战，甚至和死人一样。

每一个福音书的作者对于耶稣复活的记录略有不同。有人因此认为他们的记录是不准确的。我认为恰恰相反。如果警察调查一起交通事故，而每个人给出完全相同的描述和完全相同的细节，大家就会怀疑这个描述是否是捏造的，以至于每个人说的都一样。真正的目击者看见的是不同的方面，讲述的方式也不同。他们的描述虽然不同，但彼此并不矛盾。

想想那个混乱的复活节早晨，情况更是如此。那些妇人去到坟墓那里，但她们是一起去的并同时到达的吗？我不那么认为。她们很可能是决定好黎明时分在坟墓那里聚集。那么她们到底是按照马太讲述的看到一个天使？还是按照路加讲述的看到两个天使？结论恐怕取决于她们是什么时候到达的。也有可能是一个天使在外面，另一个在里面。我们不应该认为这些细节意味着整个事情存在矛盾之处。这些细微的差异仅仅证实了不同的人在不同的时间看到不同的事情，并描述了他们所能看到的和能记得的。真正的目击证词很少完全一致。

马太指出妇女最先见证了耶稣复活，这个事实反而支持了这些描述就是她们的目击实录。如果有人编造故事，肯定会把门徒放在前面。因为在那个时代，妇女不被认为是可靠的目击者。这些见证了耶稣埋葬的妇女，也最先见证了他的复活。在古代历史中确实没有任何一个事件的目击证词能超过有关耶稣复活的目击证词。

祷告：主耶稣，谢谢你给了我们这么多有关你复活的目击证词。我的信心不是建立在神话或谎言的基础上，而是建立在事实和真理的基础上。请帮助我向尽可能多的人传讲有关你死亡和复活的真理！阿们。

Matthew 28:1-4: After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

Each gospel writer gives slightly different accounts of the resurrection. Some would argue that their accounts are not accurate.  I think that just the opposite is true. If policemen investigate an accident that took place, and every single person has the exact same story with the exact same details, they will suspect the story was concocted so that everyone said the same thing. Real witnesses see different things and report them in different ways. Their stories can be true without being contradictory. 

         That’s especially true when you consider the chaos of that Easter morning. The women went to the tomb, but did they all come together and arrive at the same time?  I don’t think so. They probably decided to meet at the tomb at dawn. Whether they saw one angel as Matthew reports, or two angels as Luke reports, maybe the result of when they got there.  Or the one angel could have been outside the tomb and other inside. We should not think that these details mean that there are contradictions in the story. These small differences only verify that different people saw different things at different times and reported what they saw and remembered.  Real eye-witness accounts are rarely identical.

         And the fact that Matthew reports that the women were the first to witness the resurrection only supports that these were eyewitness accounts. Someone making up a story would have certainly put the disciples there first, especially in an age when women were not considered to be reliable witnesses. These women who witnessed his burial were the first to witness his resurrection. There is literally no other event in ancient history that has so many eyewitness accounts as the resurrection of Jesus!

Prayer:  Lord Jesus, thank you for giving us so many eyewitness accounts of your resurrection!  My faith is not founded on a myth or a lie, but on fact and truth. Help me to proclaim the truths of your death and resurrection to as many people as I can!  Amen.