The scriptures' chronicling of the resurrection of Jesus Christ gives hope to a world where inflated bullies continue to wreak havoc on those within their grip

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At Passover — observed this week — divine liberation from a fearsome tyrant is solemnly remembered. The Pharaoh of ancient Egypt presided over a dominant imperial power. Deliverance for an enslaved people was miraculous.

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Christians mark on Easter Sunday the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He “was crucified under Pontius Pilate” — as the Christian creeds put it — and Pilate was the local governor of the expansive world empire of the day, Rome. The Christian understanding of history emphasizes that the central events of salvation took place in a Jerusalem occupied by imperial Rome.

At that time, at that place, a providential intersection fell. Jerusalem, the royal capital of the Chosen People; from there the elect nation was charged with carrying the name of the Lord God to all peoples. Rome’s worldly power provided the juxtaposition, the might of the world against the light of the nations.

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