The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of the Christian faith and one of the most powerful proclamations of hope in history. At the heart of this event is the empty tomb, not merely a ...

Unless it’s Easter morning. Because in the empty tomb, Christians encounter the miracle of our faith: that after three agonizing days, Jesus has been raised from the dead.

The eggs also signify the empty tomb of Jesus. As for the Easter bunny, its origins are not necessarily rooted in Christianity. The exact origins of the anthropomorphic rabbit are unclear.

The empty tomb is an indispensable sign or accompanying phenomenon of the Resurrection. Sign up for The Daily Briefing Get the most recent headlines and stories from Christianity Today delivered ...

Tomorrow, Mary Magdalene will find the tomb empty, meet angels where His body lay, behold the Risen Christ. ... but it is actually at Easter that church attendance is highest in this country.

It is the Feast of Easter that surpasses all others, eminently more important than our observance of the Savior’s birth. After all, Christmas simply teaches and tells us that He came into our ...

Running to the Empty Tomb . Eugène Burnand, Peter and John Running to the Tomb, 1898, ... T he Gospel of John contains an amusing detail about Jesus’s Resurrection not found in the other gospels.

The empty tomb In the reading from John’s Gospel for this Easter Sunday we are told that Mary Magdalene “came to the tomb early, while it was still dark…” (Jn. 20:1).

They made “Resurrection Rolls,” with marshmallows placed in the middle of dough and baked, with the marshmallow melting into the dough, leaving an empty spot where it once was.

A fourth testimony to the empty tomb is peculiar to Matthew (28:11–15). Soldiers, appointed by the Sanhedrin to guard the tomb, returned to report that the tomb was empty.