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INTRODUCTION
Death has been explained many different ways, and all of these ways seem to leave me wanting.
It feels disordered and wrong.
I’ve heard grief described as waves, as if the grief of a loss will overwhelm one moment but feel nearly absent in the next.
Grief is an inexplicable pain, and death is a loss beyond all other losses.
And Mary felt all of that.
The loss of a friend, a teacher, and a guide.
The grief that would come to any of us at the loss of a friend, yet compounded by what seemed to be the loss of hope as well.
She thought he was the Messiah, the one who would rise up to free them from their oppressors, from poverty, from hardship.
She thought he might save her too—a powerful hope for a woman in a world that looked down on women, a world that years and cultures later would often still seek to discredit her.
Her grief was so great that she traveled to the tomb alone, John says.
And while other Gospel accounts say there were others with her, they are always still just women.
She was going to the tomb at a time that would have been dangerous for the followers of Jesus.
But Mary still went.
Maybe she thought they would discredit her due to her gender, or maybe her grief compelled her, or maybe this illustrates how bold and brave she is, that she was going to show up, no matter what that meant for her.
But she is there that Sunday morning.
Tears in her eyes, grief in her heart—when she witnesses the miracle of all miracles.
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The Evidence is in the Story
A. Mary’s discovery
Stone rolled away
Mary does not appear to look in
Evidence #1: The movement of the stone
Evidence #2: No guards
B. Mary runs to Peter and John
3. Evidence #3:
2 APRIL 21, 2019EASTER SUNDAY
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BODY
1. Jesus shows up, but she doesn’t recognize him.
a. Mary believes him to be a gardener.
i. John is illustrating a theological truth here—that what first happened in a garden (sin entering the world) was being conquered in a garden, through resurrection.
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Jesus is a gardener of sorts, causing life to grow where there was once death.
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