Chapter 2

They murdered God. They crucified Jesus. I didn't see it. I fell into a deep well of sadness, so deep Mother believed I was sick and let me lie in bed. I laid there, hardly even eating, until Micah came four days later.

"Jonathan," Mother called."Micah wants to know if you can come out."

I walked out, squinting in the bright sunlight.

"Did you hear?" Micah asked. He was excited.

"Hear what?"

"They say Jesus rose from the dead?"

It took me a second to take in what he said."He what!"

"Came back to life. Rose from the dead."

"He did?"

"That's what they say."

"Who?"

"His disciples. And the women and others who were with him,"

"Do you think it's possible?"

"Well, you know the things we saw him do. And Lazarus came back to life."

“That's right. Maybe he really was Messiah.”

“Maybe he reallyis<