"I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by crucifixion.
Where is the miracle I spoke of? Well consider this and let your imagination translate the story into our own time -- possibly to your own home town.
A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father's shop.
He never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three years.
There is no court of appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves.
Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing -- the only possessions he has.
His family cannot afford a burial place for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.
End of story? No, this uneducated, property-less young man has, for 2,000 years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers, kings, emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived -- all of them put together.
How do we explain that -- unless He really was who He said He was?"
Page by Mary Jones March 2005
Words by Ronald Reagan
Acts 1:10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (NIV)
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