(Harbinger’s Daily)—“Were you there, when they laid Him in the tomb?”
The somber chorus of the song, “Were You There?” poses a series of reflective questions about the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. The questions are meant to be rhetorical, for no one alive for the past 1900 years was there during Jesus’ life on Earth.
Having said that, the song makes us consider the disciples’ experience as they witnessed what seemed like a catastrophe. From the moment Jesus was arrested, they thought that their world was falling apart.
Matthew and Mark simply say that the disciples left Him and fled. All four Gospel accounts tell of Peter’s vehement threefold denial.
It would be easy to belittle the disciples for their feckless faith, but we have the advantage of hindsight. They genuinely did not understand that Jesus’ nearterm prophecies would converge at Calvary, where He would suffer and die in obedience to the Father’s plan of salvation. Only after His resurrection did they see clearly. Simply put, it is sometimes hard to have perspective in the midst of a storm.
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