“If Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain... [and] we are of all people most to be pitied.”
Three days after the crucifixion, Jesus's body apparently went missing. Then, of all things, his bumbling friends (and even his brother James) started telling everybody that Jesus was alive and that he had work for them to do.
That is why they thought the crucifixion was the coronation.
Et gloria in excelsis Deo.
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Stephen G. Mackereth '15 is a joint mathematics and philosophy concentrator in Mather House.