![]() ![]() The death of Jesus is also portrayed more gently in Luke than in Mark or Matthew. (See Gethsemane) It was only after handing himself over to his Abba that he allowed himself to be handed over into the power of sinners. ![]() If we look back to Jesus’ prayer at Gethsemane, Jesus struggled with the fear that his ministry had come to nothing, but then he handed himself over to his heavenly Abba. However, something much deeper had happened than that. 24:7) The key word is that Jesus was “handed over.” Jesus was put into the power of the sinners. But by the time, but before long they have remembered, with prompting from the men in white, Jesus’ words to them.Īmong the words the women were reminded of was that “the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified.” (Lk. The women were, indeed, terrified of the two men in “dazzling clothes” who appeared to them. No earthquakes and no women running off so afraid that they can tell nobody what they had seen at the empty tomb. Luke’s version of Jesus’ Resurrection is much the gentlest among the synoptic Gospels. ![]()
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