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Today, just take some time to read these verses and think about all the people we’ve been talking about in the last ten devotionals. After Jesus rose from the dead, He didn’t just appear to one or two people, He showed up and talked with hundreds over 40 days.
As you go through life, you’re going to hear people say the resurrection is crazy or not real. But you’ve seen for yourself in Scripture that a lot of people hung out with Jesus after He came back to life. At some point, it gets hard to believe all of them were making it up, especially when many of them were willing to die for what they saw and experienced with Him.
Some notes on today:
Cephas: This is Peter the disciple of Jesus, it means “rock” in Aramaic which is the nickname Jesus gave him (Matthew 16:18).
“some have fallen asleep”: These are people who first believed but seem to have fallen away from the faith.
“one born at the wrong time”: This is Saul who became the Apostle Paul, Jesus appeared to him on the road to Damascus (Acts 9).
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