Answer key

Each worksheet page prints its answers upside down at the foot. Here they all are, and on the slide before the credits.

Presenting

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Your script

1. The empty tomb

   Say: Last time we saw that Jesus was a real man, and that he said he was God. If that's true, everything rides on one question: did he rise from the dead?

   Say: Today we'll go through the evidence, one piece at a time.

2. What would it take?

   Ask: If a friend told you someone came back from the dead, what would you say? What would you want to see?

   Say: When the women told Jesus's friends the tomb was empty, Luke says “they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.” Something changed their minds. Let's find out what.

   Clicks: 1. the line “Jesus's friends didn't, at first. Let's find out what changed their minds.”

   Sources: Luke 24:9–11

3. Memory verse

   Do: Read it together three times. Then add motions: “he is not here” (shake your head and point to the floor), “he has risen” (arms up high), “just as he said” (hand by your mouth, then a thumbs up).

   Say: An angel said this to the women at the empty tomb. Jesus had told his friends he would rise, and he did.

   Older kids: Grades 3–4 learn John 11:25–26 and grade 5 learns 1 Corinthians 15:3–4. Both are on their worksheets.

4. Part 1 · Watch: Friday to Sunday

   Say: Start on Friday. Watch what happens to Jesus's body, and who sees where it's laid.

   Do: Read the two questions out loud, then click to play the clip. It's about 1½ minutes and stops by itself.

   Ask after: Who laid Jesus in the tomb? What did the women find? Click once for each answer.

   Clicks: 1. play the clip (it stops by itself) · 2. the answer to 1: Joseph of Arimathea. · 3. the answer to 2: The stone rolled away, and the tomb empty.

   Sources: Mark 15:15–47 · Mark 16:1–8 · Tacitus, Annals 15.44

5. The tomb was empty

   Say: Jesus really died. Even Tacitus, a Roman who despised Christians, wrote that Christus “suffered the extreme penalty” under Pontius Pilate. And Pilate checked with the centurion that he was dead before he let Joseph have the body.

   Say: This is a real tomb in Jerusalem from around that time, with its great round stone. Two women watched where Jesus was laid. On Sunday they came back, and the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away.

   Worksheet: Grades 1–2 number the story in order on page 1 now.

   Worksheet answers: Grades 1–2, Page 1: What happened first?: 1. Jesus died on the cross. 2. His friends laid him in a tomb. 3. The women found the tomb empty. 4. Jesus ate fish in front of his friends.

   Clicks: 1. the line “On Sunday, women found the stone rolled away. “He has risen! He is not here.””

   Sources: Mark 15:42–47 · Mark 16:1–6 · Tacitus, Annals 15.44

6. Part 2 · Watch: Witnesses nobody would invent

   Say: Notice who finds the tomb empty. It's not who you'd pick if you were making the story up.

   Do: Read the two questions out loud, then click to play the clip. It's about 1½ minutes.

   Ask after: Who found the tomb first? Who ran there next? Click once for each answer.

   Ask: If you were making up a story, why wouldn't you pick witnesses nobody believed? (You'd only name them because that's what happened.)

   Clicks: 1. play the clip (it stops by itself) · 2. the answer to 1: Women. In that world, a woman's word counted for little. · 3. the answer to 2: Peter and John. John got there first.

   Sources: Josephus, Antiquities 4.219 · Luke 24:9–11 · John 20:1–8

7. Part 3 · Watch: Seen alive

   Say: That evening his friends were together behind locked doors, afraid. Watch what happened next.

   Do: Read the two questions out loud, then click to play the clip. It's about 2 minutes.

   Ask after: What did Jesus eat? How many saw him at once? Click once for each answer.

   Clicks: 1. play the clip (it stops by itself) · 2. the answer to 1: A piece of broiled fish. · 3. the answer to 2: More than five hundred.

   Sources: John 20:19–29 · Luke 24:36–43 · 1 Corinthians 15:3–8

8. Seen alive

   Say: Thomas wanted proof: “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands… I will not believe.” A week later Jesus told him, “Put your finger here; see my hands.”

   Say: And he wasn't a ghost. “Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones.” Then he ate a piece of fish in front of them.

   Ask: Why would Paul say most of the 500 were still living? (So people could go and ask them.)

   Worksheet: Grades 3–4 number the events on page 1 now.

   Worksheet answers: Grades 3–4, Page 1: What happened next?: 1. Jesus died on the cross at three in the afternoon. 2. Joseph laid Jesus in a tomb cut out of rock. 3. Women found the stone rolled away. 4. Jesus showed his friends his hands and side. 5. Thomas said, “My Lord and my God!” 6. Paul wrote down a list of people who saw Jesus alive.

   Clicks: 1. the line “Paul wrote down who saw him: Peter, the Twelve, and more than 500 at once, most still alive to ask.”

   Sources: John 20:24–29 · Luke 24:36–43 · 1 Corinthians 15:3–8

9. Part 4 · Watch: From hiding to fearless

   Say: Now watch what happened to the people who said they saw him.

   Do: Read the two questions out loud, then click to play the clip. It's about 1½ minutes.

   Ask after: What did Peter say? Which brother didn't believe at first? Click once for each answer.

   Clicks: 1. play the clip (it stops by itself) · 2. the answer to 1: “God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it.” · 3. the answer to 2: James.

   Sources: Acts 2:14–41 · John 7:5 · Josephus on James (Antiquities 20.200)

10. From hiding to fearless

    Say: Peter swore he never knew Jesus. Fifty days later he stood up in the same city and said, “God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it.”

    Say: The apostles were flogged and told to stop. They left rejoicing. And Paul, who had tried to destroy the church, spent the rest of his life preaching.

    Ask: What could change scared people into brave ones like that? (They saw Jesus alive.)

    Clicks: 1. the line “People don't suffer for a story they know they made up. They saw something.”

    Sources: Mark 14:50, 66–72 · Acts 5:40–41 · Galatians 1:13–24

11. What happened?

    Say: Put the pieces together. A real death. A known tomb, found empty, by witnesses nobody would invent. Appearances to one man, to the Twelve, to 500 at once. Frightened friends turned fearless.

    Say: The first Christians gave one answer that explains all of it: God raised Jesus from the dead.

    Worksheet: Grades 1–2 help the women find the way to the tomb on page 2. Grades 3–4 look up the four verses on page 2.

    Worksheet answers: Grades 1–2, Page 2: Find the way!: Any path that reaches the end.

    Worksheet answers: Grades 3–4, Page 2: Look it up!: 1. He has risen! He is not here 2. flesh and bones 3. a piece of broiled fish 4. more than five hundred

    Clicks: 1. the card “A real death” · 2. the card “An empty tomb” · 3. the card “Seen alive” · 4. the card “Changed lives” · 5. the line at the bottom

    Sources: 1 Corinthians 15:3–8 · Mark 15:42–16:8 · Acts 2:22–32

12. True or false?

    Do: Read each one and have kids stand up for true and sit down for false. Click to stamp each answer.

    Answers: 1. False, soldiers made sure he was dead. 2. True. 3. False, more than 500 saw him at once. 4. True.

    Clicks: 1. the answer to 1: False. Roman soldiers made sure he was dead. · 2. the answer to 2: True. · 3. the answer to 3: False. More than 500 saw him at once. · 4. the answer to 4: True.

13. Going deeper · Grades 3–5 · Watch: Four easy answers

    Say: People have tried four easy ways to explain all this: he didn't really die, they hallucinated, someone stole the body, or it's a legend that grew. Let's test them.

    Do: Read the two questions out loud, then click to play the clip. It's about 2½ minutes.

    Ask after: Why don't hallucinations fit? What did the guards' story give away? Click once for each answer.

    Worksheet: Grade 5 matches each easy answer to the fact that sinks it on page 1 now.

    Worksheet answers: Grade 5, Page 1: Test the easy answers: 1-B · 2-C · 3-D · 4-A

    Clicks: 1. play the clip (it stops by itself) · 2. the answer to 1: Groups saw him at once, and a vision doesn't empty a tomb. · 3. the answer to 2: That the tomb was empty.

    Sources: Gary Habermas, “The Minimal Facts Approach” · Matthew 28:11–15 · 1 Corinthians 15:5–6

14. The skeptic brother

    Say: Paul's list says Jesus appeared to James. The Jewish historian Josephus tells how the high priest “brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James,” and had him stoned.

    Ask: What would it take for you to believe your own brother was the Son of God?

    Worksheet: Grade 5 answers the questions on page 2 now.

    Worksheet answers: Grade 5, Page 2: Think it through: Answers will vary. Look for: 1. witnesses could still be asked 2. he saw Jesus alive 3. Jesus appeared to him 4. nobody dies for a lie they made up

    Clicks: 1. the line “Then Jesus appeared to James. He became a leader of the church, and around AD 62 he was stoned for it.”

    Sources: John 7:5 · 1 Corinthians 15:7 · Galatians 1:19 · Josephus on James (Antiquities 20.200)

15. Do you believe this?

    Say: Before any of this, when his friend Lazarus had died, Jesus told Lazarus's sister Martha: “I am the resurrection and the life.” Then he asked her, “Do you believe this?”

    Say: If Jesus rose, then he was telling the truth, and death isn't the end for anyone who trusts him.

    Say: Read one Gospel this week. Mark is the shortest. And ask God straight out: if you're real, show me.

    Clicks: 1. the line “If he rose, death isn't the end. And he asks you what he asked her: “Do you believe this?””

    Sources: John 11:17–27

16. Say it again

    Do: Say the verse together, filling in the missing words. Then try it with eyes closed.

    Answers: here, risen, said (the same words as the grades 1–2 sheet).

    Worksheet: Everyone fills in their own memory verse on page 2 now and colors a star each time they say it.

    Worksheet answers: Grades 1–2, Page 2: Matthew 28:6: here, risen, said

    Worksheet answers: Grades 3–4, Page 2: John 11:25–26: resurrection, life, believes, never

    Worksheet answers: Grade 5, Page 2: 1 Corinthians 15:3–4: importance, sins, buried, third

    Clicks: 1. the missing word “here” · 2. the missing word “risen” · 3. the missing word “said”

17. Talk and pray

    Do: Talk about one or two of the questions, then pray together. Kids can repeat the prayer one line at a time.

    Say: Next time: if Jesus rose, why did he have to die at all?

    Clicks: 1. the prayer

18. Answer key

    Do: Show this when kids check their work, or keep it on your laptop in the presenter view. Each worksheet page also prints its answers upside down at the foot.

19. Pictures and Scripture

    Every picture on these slides, with its credit, license, and a link to its source.