I join believers worldwide today to proclaim – He Is Risen!

The painting above is entitled: The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection, and was painted by Eugène Burnand, a Swiss artist, in 1898. The painting refers to John 20, describing the rush to Jesus’s tomb just after dawn.

Only days before, Peter denied Jesus three times, while John helplessly watched Jesus die a bloody, forsaken death on a cross. Both now heard an impossible story from Mary Magdalene, and sprinted to see for themselves.

Stomachs-churning, hoping-against-hope, Peter and John ran toward the tomb. Finding it empty, they saw and believed.

Then, turning from that vacant hollow, they ran to tell the rest of the world.