NOTES for Mar 16:6

The women who came to the grave of the Master meet an Angel who announces them a tremendous news: "He is risen ". So comes in the event lying on the base of Christian life into the world. We would like to underline here the event, and not the idea of God incarnated, nor the beauty of Jesus’ moral teachings. Christianity is not a doctrinal formation, but rather the acceptance of this event in our biography. Let us look how the contents of the read verse help us in it.

The message is given above all by an angel, God’s messenger, and this means that the transmitted information is of a supernatural level of truthfulness. He {the angel} begins with the words " be not affrighted "; like this the Lord begins practically all His meetings with man, by letting him {the man} know that His omnipotence will not go against him. " Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth" - it is not about an abstract idea, but about a concrete Man, having lived a real life on earth. "Which was crucified" - Jesus would have had no relation with me, no concern for my biography without the death, exactly without the sacrifice, more exactly without His voluntary expiation because of my sins." He is risen" - here is the "heart" of the message, meaning the victory of Jesus on death, on any death, including ours. "He is not here" - Jesus can’t be "arrested" anywhere, even in the grave, He is free and capable to rescue us. All this is not an abstraction, nor only a spiritual fact: "behold the place where they laid Him" - all this takes place in time and space, where our life also take place, this life is now capable to be rise as Jesus.