To what do the apostles and the other disciples witness when they are called to be witnesses to Jesus Christ On the one hand they bear witness to his death ldquo but you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you and you killed the Author of life rdquo Yet

A reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter.

All the Gospels recall that on the second morning after Jesus was laid in the tomb Mary Magdalene and other women were the first to arrive at the tomb to care for Jesus rsquo body but his body was not in the tomb It would be a strange account to concoct Why James Dunn says in Jesus Remembered

If the Gospel accounts stopped just after Jesus rsquo entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday how would you imagine the next few days playing out The Gospel of John quotes Zec 9 9 ndash 10 as Jesus enters the city ldquo Look your king is coming sitting on a donkey rsquo s colt rdquo The people

When we hear of the martyrdom of Christians like the 21 Coptic Christians killed in Libya recently we identify with them immediately as disciples of Jesus and as our brothers and sisters in Christ However little we might know about the history of the Coptic Christians in their suffering witness

One of the darkest times in the life of the Jewish people was the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Babylonians and the subsequent exile of the people of God According to the Chronicler this was not an action God wanted ldquo but they kept mocking the messengers of God despising hi