John 20:11-15 (Godly Sorrow)
Three times John emphasizes Mary weeping outside the tomb of Jesus before He appeared to her, noting that both the angels and Jesus inquired why she was weeping before she came to recognize Him. Why such a question?
The Lord’s Supper
When most people celebrate communion they associate the breaking of bread with Jesus’ body that was in a sense broken for them. However, this is actually not what the Scripture associates with the breaking of bread. In fact, it seems that God went out of His way to make clear that this is not what we are to associate with the breaking of bread.
John 20:11 (Mary Weeping)
In the first written account of Jesus’ resurrection, Matthew highlights the initial discovery of the empty tomb by Mary Magdalene and another Mary, the mother of James and Joseph (abbreviated as Joses), and His subsequent resurrection appearance to them; see Mat 28:5-9. However, for his purposes in summarizing the account, he omitted details of the…
John 20:8-10 (What John Believed)
Early on Resurrection Sunday, “there yet being darkness”, Mary Magdalene and another Mary, the mother of James and Joseph, arrived at the tomb and discovered it empty. An angel in a vision told them Jesus had risen from the dead (Mat 28;1-8), but like a dream it quickly gave way to the only thing that…
John 20:7 (The Face-Cloth Rolled Up in a Place by Itself)
In what has become one of the most enigmatic passages in all of Scripture, John writes that upon entering the tomb of Jesus, Peter “beheld the linen wrappings lying there, and the face-cloth, which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself” (Joh 20:6-7). …
John 20:6-7 (The Linen Wrappings and the Shroud of Turin)
After being informed by Mary Magdalene on Resurrection Sunday that Jesus’ body was gone from the grave in which it had been placed, Peter raced off to the tomb, perhaps with a tiny glimmer of hope that what seemed impossible to him might somehow be true, but mostly to salvage what he could of his…
John 20:3-6 (John Pauses to Enter the Tomb; The Linen Wrappings)
After arriving at the tomb very early on Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph discovered that the tomb was empty where they had seen Joseph inter Jesus’ body Thursday evening. They found the stone rolled away from it when they arrived, not realizing it had been removed just moments…
Luke 24:12, John 20:3-6 (Stooping Down to See)
On the first day of the week after Jesus’ crucifixion, following the sabbath rest for the first day of Unleavened Bread on Friday and then the seventh day Sabbath on Saturday (cf. Mat 28:1, where the Greek literally reads, “after the Sabbaths”), the tomb where Jesus was interred was discovered to be empty. A number…
Luke 24:12, John 20:3-6 (The Faith Lesson; Peter Races to the Tomb)
Very early in the morning on Resurrection Sunday, before Jesus appeared to anyone in His glorified, resurrection body, a faith-event occurred to test the faith of His followers. A group of women who had followed Him from Galilee to the Passover in Jerusalem had arranged to meet at the tomb to complete the burial custom…
Luke 24:8-11 (Discerning the Validity of Spiritual Experiences)
On Resurrection Sunday, before Jesus Himself appeared to anyone, there were several appearances of angels to the women who came to the tomb to complete their burial custom for His dead body, but no such appearances to Jesus’ disciples. This appears to have been to test and increase the faith of all His followers according…
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