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42到了晚上，因为这是预备日，就是安息日的前一日，43有亚利马太的约瑟前来，他是尊贵的议士，也是等候 神国的。他放胆进去见彼拉多，求耶稣的身体。44彼拉多诧异耶稣已经死了，便叫百夫长来，问他耶稣死了久不久。45既从百夫长得知实情，就把耶稣的尸首赐给约瑟。46约瑟买了细麻布，把耶稣取下来，用细麻布裹好，安放在磐石中凿出来的坟墓里，又滚过一块石头来挡住墓门。47抹大拉的马利亚和约西的母亲马利亚都看见安放他的地方。
这么短的一小段经文，却有这么多的见证人!马可仔细的把他们列出来。约瑟接管了耶稣的身体。耶稣死了。士兵向彼拉多证实耶稣死了。两个马利亚也在现场，要看安放耶稣身体的地方。所以她们肯定没有在复活节的早晨走错坟墓!然后你还有圣经作见证。他“死的时候与财主同葬”(以赛亚书53章)。
如果耶稣的死和复活只不过是他的门徒和那些跟随耶稣的人巧妙编造的故事，那么门徒肯定会把自己写进故事里。相反，你看到记录在圣经里的，是两个法利赛人不同意把耶稣钉十字架的决定，还有两个认识耶稣的妇女，经常照顾耶稣的需要。在复活节的早晨，我们又一次在坟墓前见到了这些妇女，而不是门徒。为什么?因为事情就是这样发生的，而不是门徒们捏造出来的。
如果门徒们编造了耶稣复活的故事，你认为他们会为这些编造的故事而死吗?你不会为因为谎言而死。你会因为真理而死。除了约翰不是以殉道的方式结束生命以外，其他门徒都是为真理而死的。他们让耶稣死而复活的故事伴随他们一生，为此作见证，因为这是真理
我们也可以。我们可以让这个故事伴随我们一生。这个故事就是，耶稣这位救主是应当称颂的，他过去和现在都是全能的上帝，他来到这个世界上，为那些不配的人而死。我们可以让这个故事伴随我们一生，因为耶稣的复活保证了我们在末日的复活。耶稣死了，我们也和他一同死了。哈利路亚 !耶稣复活了，我们也不再死在罪中，乃是与他一同活著。哈利路亚!耶稣复活了，我们将永远与他同活。哈利路亚!
祷告:主耶稣啊，当我想起我的罪，在内疚的良心中挣扎，求你提醒我，使想起你的死。求你提醒我，我的罪已经赦免了，没有什么能使我与神隔绝。阿们。
Mark 15:42-47: It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. 44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. 45 When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. 46 So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid. (NIV)
Such few words and yet so many witnesses! Mark carefully lines them up. Joseph handled the body of Jesus. Jesus was dead. The soldiers certified to Pilate that Jesus was dead. The two Marys were there to see where the body of Jesus was laid. They surely didn’t get the wrong tomb on Easter Sunday morning! Then you have the witness of Scripture. He was buried with the rich in his death (Isaiah 53).
If the death and resurrection of Jesus was nothing more than a cleverly invented story by his disciples and his followers, then the disciples would surely have written themselves into the story. Instead you see two Pharisees who didn’t agree with the decision to crucify Jesus, and two women who knew Jesus and often tended to his needs. Again on Easter morning, we find the women there first at the tomb, not the disciples. Why? Because that is how it happened, not how the disciples would have invented it.
And if the disciples would have made up the story of Jesus’ resurrection, do you think they would have died for those stories? You don’t die for a lie. You die for the truth, and all the disciples died defending the truth except John, who died in prison of natural causes. To a man they took this story to the grave with them because it was the truth.
And so can we. We can take this story to the grave with us. We can take the story of a blessed Savior, who was and is God Almighty, who came into this world to die for those who did not deserve it. We can take this story to the grave with us, because Jesus’ resurrection guarantees our resurrection on the last day. Jesus died, and we died with him. Alleluiah! Jesus rose, and we are no longer dead in our sins, but alive with him. Alleluiah! Jesus rose, and we will live with him eternally. Alleluia!
Prayer: Lord Jesus, when I think of my sins and struggle with a guilty conscience, then remind me to think of your death. Remind me that my sins have been atoned for, that nothing will ever separate me from God. Amen.