Day 23: Resurrection

Ornament: Hand with nail print Scripture Reading: John 20: 1-20 Gospel Art Picture: 233, 234 LDS.org Images: The Resurrected Christ, Video: Jesus is Resurrected His Sacred Name- An Easter Declaration

“These simple words—“He is not here, but is risen”—have become the most profound in all literature. They are the declaration of the empty tomb. They are the fulfillment of all He had spoken concerning rising again. They are the triumphant response to the query facing every man, woman, and child who was ever born to earth.

The risen Lord spoke to Mary, and she replied. He was not an apparition. This was not imagination. He was real, as real as He had been in mortal life. He did not permit her to touch Him. He had not yet ascended to His Father in Heaven. That would happen shortly. What a reunion it must have been, to be embraced by the Father, who loved Him and who also must have wept for Him during His hours of agony.”

President Gordon B. Hinckley, He Is Not Here, but Is Risen, April 1999 General Conference