“He is not here; he has risen.”
– Luke 24:6

But the wounds are.

Still visible.
Still open.
Still telling the truth.

Resurrection is not erasure.

It does not rewind history.
It does not pretend the violence did not happen.

It exposes it.

The stone is rolled away,
but the scars remain.

And still
we reach for a different Jesus.

A stronger one.
A louder one.
A weaponised one.

A Christ who returns to settle scores.

But the one who stands among his friends
does not carry a weapon.

He carries wounds.

Resurrection is the ultimate protest against the state.

The state used its finest instrument
the cross
to silence him.

Resurrection is God saying:
your violence is not final.
your power is not absolute.

If we need violence to protect Christianity,
we have already admitted
we do not believe in resurrection.

Reflection

Easter is not triumphalism.

It is defiance.

It declares that death does not have the final word – but it does not deny that death has spoken.

The risen Christ is not a warrior returned to conquer.
He is the crucified one, still marked by what was done to him.

Any vision of Jesus that requires violence to sustain it
is not rooted in Easter.

Hope is not secured by force.

It is revealed in the persistence of life where death was meant to win.