In John's Gospel right next to Jesus at the Last Supper is someone called simply "the disciple Jesus loved." This is the first time this person is mentioned. He shows up again when Jesus is taken to the high priest's house for trial, and again at the foot of the cross next to the mother of Jesus.
In the first Resurrection story the disciple Jesus loved runs with Peter to the tomb to check out Magdalene's story that the body of Jesus has been stolen. When Peter enters the tomb he finds only the burial cloths. Anyone stealing a body would not take time to unwrap it. When the disciple Jesus loved enters the tomb and sees the cloths, the Gospel says simply, "He saw and believed." The Gospel writer seems to suggest that the love Jesus had for this disciple enabled him to come to faith immediatly.
Each of us is also the disciple Jesus loved. His full and gracious love enables us to believe that he rose form the dead and that he lives within us now in a deep loving relationship.
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