Disconnected excerpts from a John 20:1-18 story I wove about Resurrection morning.
- The Jewish religious leaders remembered something Jesus’ own disciples had already forgotten…
- Sometime after sunset Saturday night, another great earthquake shook the area…
- Those who saw Jesus die as well as those who heard of His death knew where He belonged.
- As soon as she got close enough to see through the gray of dawn’s early light, she peered more intently in startled astonishment.
- The incredulous men listened as the exhausted, perhaps hysterical woman poured out her report.
- It looked as though Jesus’ body were still there, except for that disconcerting gap between the body wrappings and the head wrapping!
- And put yourself in John’s shoes — how would you go about telling Jesus’ mother that you believed He was alive again!
- The conversation and its matter-of-factness seem to indicate that Mary didn’t recognize these folks as angels.
- Though she saw Him and scrutinized Him carefully, He just was not anybody she recognized.
- Imagine the Lord’s compassion for Mary as He listened to her sobbed reply.
- Or she could have stiffened in shock, and then turned back slowly, recognition surging through her incredulity…
- So instead of trying to figure out what the Lord meant, notice instead the clear clue to the nature Jesus’ resurrected body.
- Such a beautiful name for the disciples, even though they had denied and abandoned Him!
