Could Jesus’s disciples have made up the story about Jesus coming back to life?

This is that disciple who saw these events and recorded them here. And we all know that his account of these things is accurate. 

John 21.24

 

If you wanted to know whether or not the moon is made of cheese, you would try to get information from people you could trust. You would need to hear the same facts from loads of people who had actually had a picnic on the moon, right? But what would make you really believe the truth would be finding people willing to die for their story, because people aren’t willing to die for a lie. 

That’s the kind of wonderful proof we have that Jesus rose from the dead. Many people saw Jesus alive. They all reported the same facts. And each of them faced the danger of death for spreading the Good News about Jesus. The disciples didn’t make up their story. They were star witnesses to the truth!

 

 

Read Matthew 28.11-15 about the efforts people made right from the start to disprove the resurrection. Talk it over with a family member about why the leaders in the passage didn’t want to believe that Jesus was alive. Did they want people to follow them rather than Jesus?