Easter Morning Surprise–Surpassing Painted Hardboiled Eggs

Very early on Sunday morning, the women from Galilee—Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others—by tradition took spices the tomb; there they found the stone rolled away from the tomb and upon entering it did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. They then went and told others, to include the skeptical Eleven Apostles (Matt 28:1-19; Luke 24:1-10). 

Later, after Peter and others came to the tomb, “Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying?’
‘They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him.’
At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

‘Woman, he said, ‘why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?’

Thinking he was the gardener, she said,
‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.’                                              

 

Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, ‘Rabboni!’ (which means Teacher).”

What a glorious story!  As promised in prophecy, by Jesus’ teaching, and by the power of God, Jesus had resurrected—He was the Christ, He who is restored from the dead and had risen from the grave.

What joy, what hope,

Owen <><

(John 20:11-16)