For the past few weeks, our Sunday School class has been studying the last days of Jesus' life - His arrest, trials, and crucifixion. Yesterday our study was on Jesus' resurrection! "As the women were on the way into the city, some of the Temple police who had been guarding the tomb went to the chief priests and told them what had happened. A meeting of all the Jewish leaders was called, and it was decided to bribe the police to say they had all been asleep when Jesus' disciples came during the night and stole his body. "'If the governor hears about it,'  the Council promised, 'We'll stand up for you and everything will be all right.' "So the police accepted the bribe and said what they were told to. Their story spread widely among the Jews, and is still believed by them to this very day." ~ Matthew 28:11 - 15 LAB * One of the class members shared a text he had received earlier this week written by Charles Colson, who was part of Watergate and went to prison for his work as a leader in the Nixon administration:   "I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world - and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible." ***