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When Jesus the Christ was crucified, dead, and buried, his eleven disciples were so fearful for their own lives that they hid from the Jewish authorities in the home of aJerusalem friend. Late on Friday afternoon as the disciples mourned and wept, the women who had accompanied them from Galilee to Jerusalem asked James and John to hurry to the market place to buy burial spices so that they could anoint the body of their crucified Lord as soon as the Sabbath day had passed. 
Simon Peter volunteered to go for the spices, hoping thus to blot out of his mind how the night before he had denied--three times--that he even knew Jesus of Nazareth. Some of the other disciples also slipped away from the hiding place to buy enough food to last the group for several days. Left alone, James and John, the brothers whom Jesus had often affectionately called "The Sons of Thunder," talked sadly to each other. They recalled the miracle of Jesus' raising a little girl from the dead, the miracle of the woman with the plague who was healed when she touched the hem of Christ's garment, the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Peter's great confession that Jesus is "The Christ, the Son of the living God." 
Next, the brothers recalled having heard a Roman Centurion tell his soldiers (who were rolling dice to see who would get Jesus' robe) that surely the man from Nazareth whom they had put to death on the cross was "the Son of God." 
Before daybreak on the day after the Sabbath, Salome, the mother of James and John, Mary Magdalene and the other women who had prepared the burial spices, rushed into the room where the disciples were sleeping, woke them up, and cried out how only minutes before they had seen the risen Lord. Most of the 
disciples refused to believe the women, even though Salome described the event in great detail. 
That same evening, friends of the eleven, Cleopas and his wife of the village Emmaus, rushed to the hiding place, saying that they had seen the Christ and that he walked and talked with them. The disciples could not believe even this report. Not until Christ himself stood before them and showed them his wounded hands and feet, and his pierced side, did the disciples realize that their Lord was indeed risen from the grave. 
The disciples listened with great joy as the Christ commissioned them to be his witnesses to all nations. He cautioned them not to let doubt or fear arise in their Hearts. To them the Lord promised: "Behold, I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world."