Teaching Missions: Growing in God’s Grace

Jesus meets 7 disciples on the shore. They had caught nothing, and now the net is full. He restores Peter to work after asking him to confess his love 3 times

Peter fishes and catches nothing. Jesus instructs and they catch 153 fish. Jesus asks Peter if he loves HIm 3 times restoring him to service

Doubting Thomas demands seeing Jesus wounds. Jesus shows them and Thomas believes that he is God.

Mary sees Jesus and tells the disciples. Jesus appears later to 10 disciples; Thomas is missing

Mary, followed by Peter and John, confront an open tomb. Clothes seem undisturbed but the body of Jesus is gone and he is risen from the dead.

Joseph and Nicodemus bury Jesus like a true king in a new private tomb using 100 pounds of spices

Jesus was the true passover lamb whose legs were not broken, as ordered in Exodus 12, and whose side was pierced as in Zachariah 12:10

During the crucifixion, Jesus fulfills several prophecies from the Old Testament: Psalm 22, Psalm 69:21, Zachariah 12:10

Jesus is tried before Pilate and pronounced innocent 3 times. Jesus' kingdom is not on earth