Tell Us Mary, What Did You See On the Way? I Saw the Glory of the Risen Christ, I Saw His Empty Tomb. -Image Courtesy: Archdiocese of New York
The Empty Tomb
On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning while it was still dark and saw the stone removed from the tomb, so she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb and we don’t know where they put him.”
Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb, they both ran but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first, he bent down and saw the burial cloths there and the cloth that had covered His head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in (the one who had arrived at the tomb first) and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the scripture that He (Jesus) had to rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned home.
The Appearance to Mary Magdalene
Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping and as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two Angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been and they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
Mary said to them, “They have taken my Lord and I don’t know where they laid Him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there but did not know it was Jesus.
Mary Magdalene & Jesus -Image Courtesy: NC Register
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for? Mary thought it was the gardener and said to Him:
“Sir, if You carried Him away, tell me where you laid Him and I will take Him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni” – Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father but go to My brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.'”
Mary Magdalene went out and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord” and what He told her. John 20:1-18
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