Hello, friends. This year, the Maxwell Institute podcast is re-releasing some of the best episodes from our 22 podcast series, Abide, which covered the Come Follow Me curriculum through the Old Testament. The series was hosted by my colleague Christian Heel and it's well worth revisiting.

Today we share the Easter episode. The hosts explore the connections

between Jewish Passover and Easter, and they discuss an early Christian sermon that puts words

in the mouth of the risen Christ. And they make a strong case for what Latter-day Saints can

gain from taking the historical resurrection seriously.

Enjoy the conversation.

Now, Christian, we usually have you give an overview of what's happening in the chapters, but we

figure that if folks are listening to this podcast, they know what Easter is. And I wanted you to

think about what are some of the

encounters that you've had with Easter that have helped you to better appreciate not only

its miraculous nature, but to connect it to yourself as a Christian. I love Easter as a reason

to draw deeply from the well of Christian tradition. This is the time when Handel's Messiah blasts through our house.

This is the time when we're looking at Christian art,

where we're thinking about the rich celebration of Easter within the Christian tradition.

And my favorite encounters with Easter,

and the ones which stick in my mind and fuel and fund my

own faith, are ones which come from the Christian tradition.

One, for example, is with art.

I have an Easter encounter just about every day as I look up on my office wall and see

Caravaggio's deposition.

So I have a couple of Caravaggio prints in my office. One is Caravaggio's St. Jerome, which is an image which I particularly love. St. Jerome was the

fourth, late, early fifth century translator of the Bible from Hebrew into Latin, what became the Vulgate. And he,

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