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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, April 8th, 2021. Today is also, of course, still in the octave of Easter. So I hope you're not getting tired of celebrating because we have a couple more days of celebrating Easter.

All week, we've, of course, been talking about Easter, about Christ conquering Satan's sin and death, about his resurrected and glorified body, and the personal encounters that

are recorded in the gospel after the resurrection. We've talked about Mary Magdalene, doubting Thomas,

and today we're going to meet some new characters, but we're going to talk about my favorite

story of the resurrection, which is the Road to Amas. Now on the Road to Amas, we meet a character

named Cleophis, who actually doesn't appear in the gospel

anywhere else, but he seems to be a well-known follower of Jesus.

So this helps us understand that, yep, there were the 12 disciples, but there were others, too.

Others that believed and followed Jesus as well, and Cleophis seems to be one of those.

So Cleophis and his friend are walking from Jerusalem to Amaeus. And as they walk, they are talking about all of these unbelievable events that have been happening in Jerusalem.

Not only the death of Jesus, but now all of

the sudden, the women in the group are claiming that he has risen from the dead. Clearly,

they want to believe these men, but they aren't truly at that level of belief yet. So as they're

walking toward Amas, suddenly there is a man that sort of come up

behind them and sort of joined them. And he's entered into conversation with him. And he's wondering

what they're talking about. He tells them and they say, are you the only person in this whole region

that doesn't know about Jesus from

Nazareth, about his death and all the events surrounding it? So they inform him. And then this

stranger that they don't recognize begins to explain to them slowly and patiently how all of these books and all of these these things in the old

testament point to Jesus Christ how all of these things laid the groundwork how we should have

been expecting Jesus because of all of these details from the Old Testament. Their minds are just exploding with all

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