The resurrected Jesus exhorts His followers to live on mission for Him.

Meeting the resurrected Jesus changes everything!

Jesus died on the cross and was raised from the dead on the third day in fulfillment of Scripture. This was all in demonstration that God’s plan of redemption has been accomplished through Christ.

Jesus’ death and burial fulfill important Old Testament themes, which yet again demonstrate that He is the long-awaited Messiah who came to save His people from judgment.

Wisdom

In His work on the cross, King Jesus completed everything He set out to do.

Jesus willing endured the horrors and shame of the cross.

John interweaves the account of Jesus standing sinless before the Jewish leaders with Peter’s three denials of Christ, thus highlighting his and our desperate need for Jesus’ substitutionary death for sinners.

Jesus is God and willingly chose to go to the cross and drink the cup of God’s wrath in full so that His followers would not have to.