The document discusses John's perspective on Jesus' passion and resurrection based on passages from the Gospel of John. It describes how Mary Magdalene was the first witness to discover the empty tomb and encounter the risen Jesus. It then recounts how Peter and another disciple (presumably John) ran to the tomb after Mary reported it was empty, with John reaching it first but Peter entering before him. The document argues that listing women, whose testimony was deemed unreliable, as the primary witnesses to the resurrection makes the biblical account more likely to be historically accurate.

1. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
Jesus’ Passion
Through the Eyes of John

2. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
John’s Post-Empty Tomb Perspective
John 2:22: When therefore he was
raised from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he had said this,
and they believed the Scripture and
the word that Jesus had spoken.

3. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
John’s Post-Empty Tomb Perspective
John 12:16: His disciples did not
understand these things at first,
but when Jesus was glorified,
then they remembered that these
things had been written about him
and had been done to him.

4. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
The First Witness
of the Empty
Tomb

5. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
John 20
1 Now on the first day of the week
Mary Magdalene came to the tomb
early, while it was still dark, and saw
that the stone had been taken away
from the tomb.

6. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
John 20
2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and the other disciple, the one
whom Jesus loved, and said to them,
“They have taken the Lord out of the
tomb, and we do not know where
they have laid him.”

7. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
The Foot Race to
the Empty Tomb

8. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
3 So Peter went out with the other
disciple, and they were going toward
the tomb. 4 Both of them were
running together, but the other
disciple outran Peter and reached the
tomb first.
John 20

9. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
5 And stooping to look in, he saw the
linen cloths lying there, but he did
not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came,
following him, and went into the
tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying
there,
John 20

10. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
7 and the face cloth, which had been
on Jesus‘head, not lying with the
linen cloths but folded up in a place
by itself.
John 20

11. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
8 Then the other disciple, who had
reached the tomb first, also went in,
and he saw and believed; 9 for as
yet they did not understand the
Scripture, that he must rise from the
dead.
John 20

12. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
10 Then the disciples went back to
their homes.
John 20

14. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
“Be a Peter or a John.
Hasten to the sepulcher,
running together. Running
against one another, vying
in the noble race.Gregory of
Nazianzus

15. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
And even if you are
beaten in speed, win the
victory of showing who
wants it more. Not just
looking into the tomb but
going in.”
Gregory of
Nazianzus

16. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
7 and the face cloth, which had been
on Jesus‘head, not lying with the
linen cloths but folded up in a place
by itself.
John 20

17. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John

19. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
The First Witness
of the Risen
Jesus!

20. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
John 20
11 But Mary stood weeping outside
the tomb, and as she wept she
stooped to look into the tomb.

21. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
12 And she saw two angels in white,
sitting where the body of Jesus had
lain, one at the head and one at the
feet.
John 20

22. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
13 They said to her, “Woman, why are
you weeping?” She said to
them, “They have taken away my
Lord, and I do not know where they
have laid him.”
John 20

23. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
14 Having said this, she turned around
and saw Jesus standing, but she did
not know that it was Jesus.
John 20

24. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are
you weeping? Whom are you
seeking?”Supposing him to be the
gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you
have carried him away, tell me where
you have laid him, and I will take him
away.”

25. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She
turned and said to him in Aramaic,
“Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).
John 20

26. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
17 Jesus said to her,“Do not cling to
me, for I have not yet ascended to
the Father; but go to my brothers
and say to them, ‘I am ascending to
my Father and your Father, to my
God and your God.’”
John 20

27. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
18 Mary Magdalene went and
announced to the disciples, “I have
seen the Lord”—and that he had said
these things to her.
John 20

28. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
Jewish Oral Law stated that women
were unreliable witnesses because:
1.The Hebrew words used to
describe witnesses are
masculine nouns.

29. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
Jewish Oral Law stated that women
were unreliable witnesses because:
2. A woman’s place was the
home, not the court.

30. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
Sean
McDowell
Why would the
disciples invent a
story where
women were the
first witnesses?

31. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
Sean
McDowell
It’s embarrassing
to the disciples
and it undermines
their case!

32. Jesus’ Passion Through the Eyes of John
“The fact that it is women, whose
testimony was worthless, rather than
men who are said in the earliest
narrative to be the discoverers of the
empty tomb is best explained by the
fact that the tradition here is
reliable.” (Dr. William Lane Craig)