If foes had taken the body, would they not have done the same? If not, if for some reason friends or foes had unwrapped the body, would they have been so careful as to dispose of the clothing in such an orderly fashion? Of course not! But if neither friend nor foe took the body, who did? This was John’s question, and this question led to John’s discovery. “He saw and believed” (John 20:8). Through the rags of death, John saw the power of life. Odd, don’t you think, that God would use something as
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