John 20:8 records, “So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed” (NASB). John’s eyewitness record of the life of Jesus records that his investigation of the empty tomb caused him to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. Most likely, John saw the linen wrappings used to prepare Jesus’ body for burial lying there intact, only allowing for one possibility: Jesus rose from the dead and passed through those wrappings. His body was not stolen out of the tomb. No one had entered the tomb, unwrapped the body, left the wrappings lying all around, and removed the body. No, John “. . . saw and believed.” These eyewitness reports from those closest to Jesus recorded for us generations later remind us that belief in Jesus is reasonable. Reading the record of Scripture bolsters faith. It is reasonable to believe that God is, that God is Trinity, that Jesus is the God-Man, that Jesus died and rose again, and that Jesus’ payment for the sin of the world is an acceptable payment for my sin. I believe in risen Jesus, and my sin is forgiven. Reasonable faith!
*The pic is what some believe to be the tomb where Jesus was buried, now inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.