John includes a detail that is easy to overlook but deeply important: “while it was still dark.”
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It is a gift to have reliable people in your life—people whose words carry weight because their presence backs them up.
There are phrases in the Bible that seem to me to appear again and again.
Paul is echoing words his audience would have known well from Isaiah.
Isaiah paints a powerful picture: a feast prepared, tears wiped away, and death itself undone.
People often imagine the afterlife by thinking about who they will see again. Being reunited with loved ones or asking questions to someone famous from history.
As Easter people, we rejoice in the assurance of God’s new covenant through Jesus.
The Spark Story Bible imagines this parable with childlike language