The Second Sunday of Easter Year C

The Second Sunday of Easter

Acts 5.27–32
Revelation 1.4–8
John 20.19–end

The report of Jesus’ resurrection strikes the chief priests as a threat of God’s judgement. Yes and no, reply the apostles: your guilt is swallowed up in the message of forgiveness, of new Spirit-given life. But those whose way of life seems threatened by the gospel will always interpret it as bad news. Authorities regularly try to suppress or marginalize the gospel, rightly interpreting it as a challenge to their precarious position. But the resurrection is not another human scheme, one power-play alongside others. It is on a different level, God’s gift to his surprised world....