Deliverance from the Cross — Page 91
When she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus because he was wearing gardener's clothes. Jesus saith unto her, woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away'. John 20:14-15) With these words Mary Magdalene seems to have turned away from Jesus the gardener - to look farther when Jesus said to her: Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him: Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Only now did she recognise Jesus because it seems only he would say Mary in this particular way. He said: Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God'. John 20:17) Mary went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and he had spoken these things unto her. On the evening of the same day, Jesus, no longer in the clothes of a gardener, was on his way to Emmaus, a village near Jerusalem, when he caught up with two disciples going in the same direction. Jesus did indeed look strange. No wonder the disciples did not recognise 91