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is to say Master." The way Mary came at last to recognize her Lord is also deeply significant. He just spoke one word; “Mary.” Up to that moment it had not occurred to her that it was Jesus, but in an instant, when she hears that name come trembling on the morning air, spoken as no other ever spoke it but Jesus Himself, at once her eyes are opened to recognize her Lord. There is a swift turn and a glad scream, “Rabonni” and she is at His feet, seeking to hold them fast. No fabricator of the story of a resurrection, that never took place would or could have fabricated this detail in this way. It bears the unmis takable marks of an exact and minutely accurate statement of facts just as they occurred. If we cannot detect the differ ence between fact and fiction here, we must despair of ever detecting it anywhere. Jesus does not suffer her to hold Him fast. He says, as rendered in the Authorized Ver sion, “Touch me not.” A better transla tion would be, “hold me not fast . . . but go unto my brethren, and say to them, etc.” The thought is that there are other sad hearts to comfort and Mary must not hold fast to Him but leave Him and hurry to them with the glad message that He is risen. Just so there are times when we would lie at Jesus’ feet and rapturously embrace them, but Jesus bids us rather arise and go tell others the glad truth that has been made known to us. 7. What then about our sanctification? Heb. 7:25. 8 . What then about our sorrows ? 1 Cor. 15:19. 9. What then about our hope? 1 Thess. 4:18. 10. What about our God and Saviour? Rom. 1:4. (II) At the Tomb; Its Contents, vs. 3-9. h Mary, Peter and John running; was it worth it? 1 Cor. 15:55-57. 2. Why are not men more eager? John 3:19.
grief to recognize Him. Furthermore it is evident from other episodes that there was a change in the appearance of Jesus after His resurrection from the appearance that He had before His crucifixion. The story evidently is not made up. This is not fiction,, it is life, not fancy. Jesus repeats the question of the angels, “Woman, why weepest thou?” To that question He adds another, “Whom seekest thou?” Mary’s answer to Jesus’ question has in it an exquisite touch of life and love. Sup posing -it to be the gardener, she says, “Sir, if thou hast borne Him hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Of course she could not do what she offered to do, she a feeble woman carry away a full grown man, but how true to a woman’s love that never stops to ask what is possible, but freely undertakes to do anything that needs to be done. ' Was this story made up? If so, the man who made it up was the master literary artist of all the centuries: But the rational and candid mind sees at once that it could not have been made up. It is a record of facts as they actually occur red. There is here a genuineness and simplicity and naturalness, a self evident truthfulness, that surpasses all the possi bilities of art. v. 16. “ Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned (turneth) herself, and saith unto Him ('add, in Hebrew), Rabonni, which Vi) At the Tomb; Its Emptiness, v. 2. 1. What had they expected to find? Luke 24:3. 2. What should they have expected to find? Matt. 20:19. 3. How reprove the grief of unbelief? Luke 24:25, 26, 4. Suppose they had found It instead of H im f 1 Cor. 15:14. 5. What then about our sins? 1 Cor. 15:17. 6 . What then about our justification? Rom. 4 :25.
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