Resurrection Day, 2025: Telling the Story of the Resurrection

 The four canonical Gospels have four distinct endings.  But as Richard Bauckham has observed, the four accounts have a common narrative structure.  All four include:

• a report of the empty tomb with multiple witnesses.
• appearances of Jesus to a number of individuals and groups.
• further appearances of Jesus with commissioning of disciples to share the Gospel.

Bauckham speculates that when the story of the resurrection was conveyed orally, the tellers always included these three things.  The goal in sharing the story was not to tell about every single thing that happened or that the teller knew about, but instead to give a brief account following this basic outline.