We concluded yesterday by looking at what we should see when we look into Christ’s empty grave. We’ll continue that in today’s lesson with the fourth point, the most important one. We must look into the tomb to see that Jesus is not in it. He is risen, as he said. He has conquered death. The empty tomb is one great evidence of the resurrection. Most people who have written seriously about the events of this momentous week have noticed, if they have been honest, that in all the reports we have, whether in the New Testament or in secular sources of the time, there is not one instance of any attempt to deny the grave was empty. There are alternative explanations. One of them is in the verses that follow these in Matthew: that the disciples stole the body. But there is not one writer anywhere who has denied that the tomb was empty and the body gone. What can account for it? Not theft by Christ’s enemies; if they had had the body, they would have produced it later when the resurrection was proclaimed by Jesus’ followers. Not the disciples either; for if they had stolen the body, they would not have been willing to die, as many of them did later, for what they knew was a fabrication. The only adequate explanation of the empty tomb is that Jesus had been raised from the dead as the Bible teaches.