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Yet the only reason
  that His death
was destined to be so
  obvious
was so that His
  resurrection
would also be so glorious.
Therefore,
since this is what was meant,
we should not expect
that He should stay
  forever dead.
But we should come
  to expect
that He come back
  to life again.
And this is what did
  happen.

Yet,
if He would have
  arose from the dead
while still nailed to the
  cross,
many would have said
that He never really
  died at all.
But they would have
  assumed
that He merely came
  down from the cross
  just as they urged Him to.                      See Matthew 27:41-42
And if He had been buried
  for only a short moment
before coming back to life
  again,
then many would suspect
that He was not yet
  really dead.
Or
if He were to have
  come back to life again
after a long time had past,
then many of His friends
  may have forgotten Him.
They may have wondered
  if this was the same man
who suffered so long ago
  for them.
But
He appeared to them
  on the third day
so they would
  still be gathered there
and the memory of His
  death
  would still be clear.

So even though
  extreme measures were made,
He arose from the dead
  anyway.
And the men assigned
  to guard His grave
could do nothing more
  than to faint.                                          See Matthew 28:4
For
if He had appeared to them
  again alive
right before His enemies
  eyes,
they would have
  screamed in fear
  and died of fright
because then
  they would have known
  how wrong they were
  to take his life.

For they were
  completely opposed
to His life
so much so 
  that they crucified.
And if God declares
  that it’s so right
that He instead
  should be alive,
then God declares
  that it is right
that they instead
  should then die.
Or
would they honor one
  whom they’ve just killed?
Or would they mock someone
  who is living proof
  of God’s Will?

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