Gentleman Jesus by Jewels From The Word

They laid Jesus’ dead body in the tomb. Their hopes and dreams for a conquering Messiah to overcome the Roman rulers lay dead, too.

So, their hopes all gone, and in fear for their lives, they all hid out. Life would never be the same again, but life would go on, even without the Lord.

Except for the women. Their broken hearts gave them a boldness that caused them to go to the tomb that Sunday morning. What did they have to lose? They had already lost the only thing that ever mattered to them, their dear Jesus, and they had nowhere else to go, nothing else to do. So they went to the tomb, as every mother and sister has for thousands of years, to touch the stone-cold hands one more time and look in the face of that precious one they loved more than life itself. They wanted to smooth oils and perfumes on that cold body to keep it from smelling one more day. In their grief, they just could not let Him go yet.

The women came to the tomb, worrying about who they could get to move the stone that covered the entrance. But when they got there, the stone was already rolled away. Jesus was gone, risen from the dead. He didn’t need to move the stone to get out, because later in His new resurrected body He walked through the wall.

But Jesus, being the gentleman that He is, saw to it that the stone was moved so the women could come in.