Jesus Remembered: Christianity in the Making, vol. 1

§18.3 Et Resurrexit
others examined earlier, seems to have begun as the expression of eyewitness testimony,
quickly prized because of its potential import and soon told and told
again in the circles of first disciples as a basic component of their conviction that
God had raised Jesus from the grave.
18.3. Appearance Traditions
The second sequence of traditions is much more extensive, but also much more
diverse. Indeed, there is nothing quite like them in the Jesus tradition and an effective
synoptic analysis is almost impossible. In the following table I set out the
data in as close to a putative chronological order as the data permit, without putting
any weight on the chronological relationships at this stage.
To whom
1. Mary
2. Women
3. Peter
4. Cleopas
5. Eleven
6. Eleven
7. 120?
8. Eleven
9. 500+
10. James
11. Apostles
12. Paul
18.
Where
At tomb
Near tomb
?
Emmaus
upper room
upper room
Jerusalem
Galilee
?
?
?
Damascus
When
Sun. a.m.
Sun a.m.
Sunday
Sun p.m.
Sun. eve.
+ 7 days
40 days
9
?
9
7
+ 2 years?
Matthew
28.8-10
28.16-20
Mark
(16.9)
(16.12-13)
16.7
Luke
24.34
24.13-35
24.36-49
Ac. 1.3-11
Ac. 9 etc.
John
20.11-18
20.19-23
20.26-29
21.1-23
1 Cor.
(1) and (2) The appearance(s) to the women — Matt. 28.8-10; John 20.11-
Matt. 28.8-10 John 20.11-18
8 So they (the women)
left the tomb quickly
with fear and great joy,
and ran to tell his
disciples. 9 And look,
Jesus met them and
said, 'Greetings!' And
they came to him, took
hold of his feet, and
worshiped him. 10
15.5
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.7
15.8
11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to
look into the tomb; 12 and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the
body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13
They said to her, 'Woman, why are you weeping?' She said to them, 'They
have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him'. 14
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but
she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, 'Woman, why are
you weeping? Whom are you looking for?' Supposing him to be the
gardener, she said to him, 'Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where
you have laid him, and I will take him away'. 16 Jesus said to her, 'Mary!'
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