It is fitting, here at the dying of an old year, to remember the resurrection that Jesus brings. He did not do this to show off, but to show us more deeply what he came to establish: a Kingdom not of this world, which death cannot stop. That does sound a little hard to believe if you don't have the benefit of reading the end of the story, so let's cut Peter a little slack. Probably many of us, if we were being honest, would have a hard time believing all of that too.