locked for fear of the Jewish leaders. This was hardly a glorious first gathering of the church on what would become known as the “Lord’s Day” (see Ign. Magn. 9.1; Brown 2008, 1020). “The irony is stark: on the greatest day in the history of the world, a day when God defeated death itself and inaugurated the restoration of his creation, his closest followers were not celebrating but cowering in fear” (Klink 2016, 858). In the midst of their fear, Jesus came and stood among them. John offers no explanation