Object:
some wrappings much like what Peter might have seen when
he looked into the tomb
Very early on this day, Easter, many years ago the disciple
Peter and one of the other disciples -- probably John -- went to
the tomb where Jesus had been buried on Good Friday. They got to
the tomb and what did they see? (Let them answer.) They saw a
sight very much like the one we have before us today -- a pile of
linen wrappings. They knew that Jesus' body had been wrapped in
these wrappings and now, when they looked into the place where
the body should have been, all they saw was evidence that Jesus
had risen from the dead. They saw where the body had been, but
