Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of Christ, Part 31.

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In our survey of the Gospel Resurrection Narratives, we've looked at the burial account of Jesus and

at the discovery of his empty tomb. And today we want to turn to a discussion of the post-mortem

appearances of the risen Jesus. These appearances are already foreshadowed in the gospel of Mark,

chapter 16, and verse 7 in the prediction given by the angel. Mark 167, he says,

but go tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to

Galilee. There you will see him as he told you. So even though in the canonical gospel of Mark,

Mark as we have it today, there is no narration of this appearance

in Galilee. Clearly Mark knows of such an appearance of the risen Lord to the disciples

and perhaps a wider group, including the women, that took place in Galilee. Now, when you look at the gospel according to Matthew,

it is, as it were, a continuation of Mark's account,

and there we do have a narrative of this Galilean appearance.

This is found in Matthew 28, verses 16 to 20.

Matthew chapter 28, verses 16 to 20.

Now the 11 disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.

And when they saw him, they worshipped him. But some doubted.

And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy

Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always

to the close of the age. So we have in both Mark and in Matthew a reference to a Galilean appearance to the disciples

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