“Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts?” The two disciples who encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus returned to tell the disciples in Jerusalem that they has seen the Lord. Jesus then appeared to the disciples who were hiding in a room behind locked doors. He said, “Peace be with you.” Today’s passage from Luke seems to be describing the same event that John described in the gospel passage from last week. The disciples are startled and terrified at seeing Jesus, risen from the dead. He eats fish and bread and shows them his hand and his feet, flesh and bone, and makes them witnesses of his fulfillment of the Scriptures. He sends them to preach repentance for the forgiveness of sins to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem. They are now Apostles [one who is sent]. The true joy of Easter is that we are blessed to be hearers of that message of forgiveness of sins. Imagine hearing Jesus, acting in the person of our priest, say, “Peace be with you!” What a great joy that would be.