Easter cartoons - He has risen!… Mic Drop

That first Easter Sunday was the perfect conclusion to the first Holy Week.

  • It began with Jesus' triumphant entry- crowds having branches, and shouting “Hosanna!” Jesus rode while knowing full well where the week was headed.

  • Jesus taught in the Temple and flipped over the merchant tables.

  • He shared the Last Supper with His disciples, giving the gift of communion to remember Him by.

  • That same night, He prayed in agony in Gethsemane, surrendering completely with the words “Not my will, but your will be done.”

  • Then came the arrest, unfair trials, the mocking, the scourging, and

  • On Good Friday, the One who had never sinned became the perfect sacrifice for ours.

  • And then… silence on Holy Saturday

BUT early on Easter morning,

everything changed. The stone rolled away, and the Tomb was empty.

  • But on that first Easter morning, the stone was rolled away, the tomb was empty, and two women who came to visit the tomb were greeted by angels with the words… “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!” Luke 24:5-6.

  • Mary Magdalene witnessed the empty tomb (John 20:1) and then ran to tell Peter and John (John 20: 2)

  • Peter and John, who raced to the tomb, found that it was empty. (John 3-10)

  • Mary stays behind weeping, then encounters two angels, then Jesus (John 20:11-18)

  • Jesus appears to his disciples (John 20:19-23)

  • and to Thomas (John 20:24:29)

  • He walked unrecognized with two friends on the road to Emmaus until He broke bread with them — and in that moment their eyes were opened. (Luke 24:13-35)

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it. Mark 16:19

DEATH was defeated! Hope had won!

The same Jesus who surrendered his will in the garden rose from the grave.

And because He lives, everything is different.

He is risen.

MIC DROP!

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GONE FISHIN’

Afterward Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples went out to fish but caught nothing. Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but they did not realize that it was Jesus. He called to them, How’s the fishing?” “No fish at all” they answered. Jesus then said “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.

Then John said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish. When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it and some bread.

Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” They had caught 153 large fish. Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. …This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Jesus commanded His Disciples “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.And these signswill accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons;they will speak in new tongues;they will pick up snakeswith their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands onsick people, and they will get well.”

Disclaimer: Once again I am limited by my medium of cartooning to do justice to the beautiful Easter story, and the message of the Holy Week. My motto of Clean Humor and God’s Truth is not what God’s Salvation Story deserves, BUT it is what I do so I pray you see these Back Pew cartoons as light moments on this day of rejoicing that our savior is Jesus Christ.