5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: He's Alive! | 5 Minutes with Jesus | April 5, 2026
- Go until the disciples and peter.
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- What a gift to a man who knew that he had failed.
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- Would he have gone anyway?
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- I imagine probably so.
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- But he was being told he would be welcomed and expected.
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- The beauty of resurrection sunday is that because jesus
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- Rose from the dead, we're all welcomed.
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- Even when we've fallen and failed.
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- Christ's resurrection changes everything.
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- Christ is risen!
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- He has risen indeed.
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- Before his crucifixion,
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- Jesus had warned peter that before the cock crowed
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- Three times, he would deny that he even knew jesus.
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- When peter heard that sound,
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- It must have been the most devastating moment of his life.
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- He had loved and followed christ for three years
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- And honestly,
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- I think even
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- Being prepared to die with jesus in the garden of gethsemane,
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- You might remember that he took out a sword
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- And cut off the ear of malchus,
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- The servant of the jewish high priest caiaphas.
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- I kind of imagine him thinking,
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- I will fight and die with you here.
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- I'm not just going to lay down like a lamb.
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- Peter didn't understand.
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- He'd been following a lamb all along.
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- Christ, the spotless lamb of god.
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- So what was that following day like for peter?
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- Scripture doesn't tell us where he went that night,
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- But i can only imagine the agony he must have gone through
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- As the following day was the sabbath.
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- The bodies had to be taken down.
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- Romans would often leave men on the cross for days.
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- But by jewish law, which was laid out in deuteronomy,
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- Any man given the death penalty
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- Had to be taken down and buried that night.
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- So two graves were kept for that purpose.
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- But this particular weekend was of even
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- Greater significance, as it was passover.
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- And john 19. we read afterward.
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- Joseph of arimathea had been a secret disciple of jesus
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- Because he feared the jewish leaders asked pilot
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- For permission
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- To take down jesus's body when pilate gave permission.
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- Joseph came and took the body away with him
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- Came nicodemus, the man who'd come to jesus at night.
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- He brought about 75 pounds of perfumed ointment
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- Made from myrrh and aloes.
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- Following jewish burial custom, they wrapped
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- Jesus body with the spices and long sheets of linen cloth.
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- The place of crucifixion was near a garden
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- Where there was a new tomb never used before.
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- And so, because it was the day of preparation
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- For the jewish passover,
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- And since the tomb was close at hand, they laid jesus there.
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- Luke records as his body was taken away.
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- The women from galilee followed
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- And saw the tomb where his body was placed.
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- Then they went home
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- And prepared spices and ointments to anoint his body.
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- But by the time they were finished, the sabbath had begun.
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- So they rested as required by the law.
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- But early the next morning, before the sunrise,
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- Mary magdalene came to the tomb and found that
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- The stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
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- She ran to find peter and john, who went ahead
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- Of her to the tomb.
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- And when they looked in, jesus body was gone,
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- But the linen he was wrapped in was still there.
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- We did.
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- The peter and john went home, but mary stayed.
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- In john chapter 20 we read,
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- Mary was standing outside the tomb crying as she wept.
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- She stooped and looked in.
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- She saw two white robed angels, one sitting at the head
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- And the other at the foot of the place
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- Where the body of jesus had been lying.
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- Dear woman, why are you crying?
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- The angels asked her.
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- Because they've taken away my lord, she replied,
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- And i don't know where they've put him.
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- She turned to leave and saw someone standing there.
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- It was
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- Jesus, but she didn't recognize him.
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- Dear woman, why are you crying?
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- Jesus asked her.
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- Who are you looking for?
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- She thought he was a gardener.
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- Sir, she said, if you've taken away,
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- Tell me where you've put him, and i will go and get him.
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- Mary.
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- Jesus said.
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- She turned to him and cried out upon i,
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- Which is hebrew for teacher.
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- What a moment!
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- What a gift
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- Given to the woman who had once been tormented by evil spirits.
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- She was the first to see that death had lost its sting
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- And jesus was alive.
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- Mark records
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- A statement made by an angel who was present in the tomb.
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- This is as grace filled as a moment could ever be.
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- Now go
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- And tell his disciples, including peter,
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- That jesus is going ahead of you to galilee.
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- You'll see him there just as he touched you before he died.
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- Go until the disciples and peter.
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- What a
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- Gift to a man who knew that he had failed.
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- Would he have gone anyway?
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- I imagine probably so.
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- But he was being told he would be welcomed and expected.
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- The beauty of resurrection sunday is that because jesus
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- Rose from the dead, we're all welcomed.
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- Even when we've fallen and failed.
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- Christ's resurrection changes everything.
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- Christ is risen!
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- He has risen indeed.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, for a day to celebrate.
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- I can't even imagine what that was like for mary
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- In her brokenness, knowing how you had taken the
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- Power of darkness from her life.
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- And yet she had watched you been laid in a tomb.
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- The fact that you gave her the gift of being the first one
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- To see you.
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- What a gift, lord. what a gift.
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- But i pray, lord, for everyone who's come through
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- Some difficult days in the past days and weeks.
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- Lord, today we pause and we celebrate that
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- Because you rose from the dead, we win.
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- Thank you that even when we lose little battles down here
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- Because of you, we win.
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- And we simply say, hallelujah!
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- Christ is risen! in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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