Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
Resurrection
R. C. Sproul
God just doesn’t throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
Fleming Rutledge
The worlds religions have certain traits in common, but until the gospel of Jesus Christ burst upon the world, no one in the history of human imagination had conceived of such a thing as the worship of a crucified man.
John G Lake
The great majority of the Christian world is still weeping at the foot of the cross. Man’s consciousness is fixed on the Christ who died, not the Christ who lives. They are looking back to the Redeemer who was, not the Redeemer who is.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
It is the resurrection that finally proves who our Lord is. It is the resurrection that finally establishes the point that this Jesus whom the Jewish leaders had despised—Jesus the carpenter, this fellow, this man who had learning, never having learned, this imposter, this blasphemer, this one who claimed equality with God—really was all He claimed to be. It is the final proof that He is none other than God’s only begotten Son, the eternal Son of God; that though He was a man, He was not only a man. “Ah,” you say, “but what about the case of Lazarus? Didn’t he also rise from the dead?” Lazarus was merely restored to life, and he died again later on. Our Lord, by contrast, is “the first begotten of [from] the dead” (Rev. 1:5). He is the first person ever to have gone through death and come out the other side alive. And that is the proof of the fact that He is the Son of God.