Morning Worship, 4/8/12

“And they lived happily ever after.”  Many stories end like that, even if they don’t use that line, right?  Stories like The Lion King end when the main character, who is good, overcomes the odds and defeats another major character who is bad.  Boy meets girl, they fall in love, all is right with the world…“and they lived happily ever after.”  Is that the way the Jesus story ends?  Not according to Mark.  In the oldest manuscripts, the story ends after verse eight, with Jesus raised but his disciples confused and afraid.  The literal translation of the last verse is, “...and no one anything they told, they were afraid for...."  What does that ending mean?



Enjoy!