Jesus came and stood among them.
Jesus with disciples with doors locked.
The disciples were afraid of the jews.
Jesus appears to the disciples behind locked doors 20 19 23 244.
Suddenly out of nowhere jesus comes to them.
This first impulse of the disciples was an understandable one.
John 20 19 31 new international version niv jesus appears to his disciples.
The disciples are gathered in a room.
We lock doors when we are afraid.
So here he was suddenly appearing behind closed locked doors.
Jesus came and stood in their midst.
The account begins on the afternoon of easter sunday.
The disciples are overjoyed at seeing the risen lord.
Mary s announcement 20 18 must have stunned the disciples.
During their anxiety jesus appeared to them and offered them peace.
On the evening of that first day of the week when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the jews jesus came and stood among them and said peace be with you john 20 19.
Later the news that the lord was alive came from two travelers who had unknowingly spent the day walking to emmaus with jesus luke 24 15 16.
Confused elated doubtful and fearful the.
But the ruling jews the leading jews the ones who had jesus executed for going against their laws and their egos those were the ones to be feared.
The doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the jews.
The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the lord.
They were jews and so was jesus.
Today s scripture is a story about locked doors.
The exclamation point suggests to me jesus decided to surprise the disciples which might even been fun for.
Not all jews of course.
John 20 19 when therefore it was evening on that jhn jo jn christian bible study resources dictionary concordance and search tools.
The disciples had witnessed at least portions of the events if only from a comfortable distance.
19 on the evening of that first day of the week when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the jewish leaders jesus came and stood among them and said peace be with you 20 after he said this he showed them his hands and side.
Jesus had been arrested tried scourged and crucified.
Peace be with you when he had said this he showed them his hands and his side.
Jesus appears to thomas 25 so the other disciples told him we have seen the lord but he replied unless i see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails have been and put my hand into his side i will never believe 26 eight days later his disciples were once again inside with the doors locked and thomas was with them.
John tells us why they were locked.
We are told that the door is locked because the disciples are afraid.