Ken Davis writes about a woman who looked out of her window and saw her German shepherd shaking the life out of a neighbor's rabbit. Her family did not get along well with these neighbors, so this was going to be like a disaster.
She grabbed a broom, pummeled the dog until it dropped the now extremely dead rabbit out of its mouth. She panicked. She did not know what else to do. She grabbed the rabbit, took it inside, gave it a bath, blow dried it to its original fluffiness, combed it until that rabbit was looking good, snuck into the neighbor's yard, and propped the rabbit back up in its cage. An hour later she heard screams coming from next door. She asked her neighbor, "What's going on?" "Our rabbit! Our rabbit!" her neighbor cried. "He died two weeks ago. We buried him, and now he's back!"
John Ortberg connects this story to Jesus' resurrection with the following comment:
People in the ancient world knew dead rabbits tend to stay dead. They knew dead rabbis tend to stay dead. A scholar by the name of N. T. Wright notes, "There were many messianic movements in the first century. In every case, the would-be Messiah got crucified by Rome as Jesus did." And this is what he writes: "In not one single case do we hear the slightest mention of the disappointed followers claiming their hero had been raised from the dead. They knew better."