Luke 24

The resurrected Jesus meets two people walking on the road to Emmaus. He asked them what they were talking about. One of them, Cleopas, responded, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” (Verse 18)

Jesus was crucified during the Festival of Passover. There were millions of Jewish pilgrims that were in Jerusalem at the time. Apparently the news of Jesus’ death and resurrection had spread throughout the whole city. This was before the internet, television, and the telephone. Everyone was talking about what happened! This news was worth talking about.

It must have brought Jesus incredible joy to know that people were talking about him; they were telling his story.

An innocent man was killed. Three days later he was back alive! That is crazy news. If that happened today, everyone in the world would be talking about it. Every television station would be talking about Jesus and fighting for a chance to interview him.  

Just because it happened 2,000 years ago, doesn’t make it any less real; it doesn’t make it any less newsworthy.

This story is still worth telling.