The Appearance to the Disciples

Today's Reflections

The Appearance to the Disciples 

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Mk 16:9-15

⁹When [Jesus] had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. ¹⁰She went and told his companions who were mourning and weeping. ¹¹When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

¹²After this he appeared in another form to two of them walking along on their way to the country. ¹³They returned and told the others; but they did not believe them either.

¹⁴[But] later, as the eleven were at table, he appeared to them and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they had not believed those who saw him after he had been raised. ¹⁵He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.”

Reflection:

He rebuked them for their unbelief. It is consoling and encouraging that the first bringers of the good news commissioned by Christ were made of the same stuff as we are. There was Mary Magdalene, out of whom Jesus had driven seven demons. Then there were the first hearers of the good news but did not believe immediately. Then, too, the two disciples who apparently were the dejected disciples going to Emmaus. Finally, there were the eleven whom Jesus rebuked for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had been raised.

You do not have to be a perfect disciple before you can become an evangelizer. Jesus uses imperfect people to be his witnesses.

Be a witness to Jesus now!