{"id":745,"date":"2012-04-11T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=745"},"modified":"2012-04-11T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:25:23","slug":"the-stranger-at-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger at Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Easter tomb\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/eastertomb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walking on the road to Emmaus on the same day that Jesus appeared to Mary and Mary Magdalene, were two of the disciples. They were according to <a title=\"Bible you version\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.youversion.com\/bible\/luke.24.niv\">Luke; 24 verses 13 &#8211; 35<\/a>, talking about the events that had happened.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus walks with them but they did not know him. He asked questions about the last few days as if he was unaware.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have taken place there in these days?&#8221; asks the disciple, and he goes on to recount all the events to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>After listening, Jesus becomes known to them and they are amazed to be with him and plead for him to stay with them forever.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we are all very blind to things we don&#8217;t want to see or are unable to understand. The disciples were still in a state of shock and disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what questions we would have asked?<\/p>\n<p>How would we recognise if Jesus is walking alongside us?<\/p>\n<p>What would we want to tell him about our lives and things that are happening today?<\/p>\n<p><em>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin   Curate at <a title=\"Gayton group of parishes\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.gaytongroupofparishes.org\/\">Gayton Group of parishes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Faith Goes Wlkabout\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/\">Faith Goes Walkabout<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Walking on the road to Emmaus on the same day that Jesus appeared to Mary and Mary Magdalene, were two of the disciples. They were according to Luke; 24 verses 13 &#8211; 35, talking about the events that had happened. Jesus walks with them but they did not know him. He asked questions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-seasons","category-theological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}