Sermon Tone Analysis

Women FIRST Witnesses & Evangels

18Mary Magdalene came and informed the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!”

And she told them what Jesus had said to her.

So they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Matt - Luke many women

John - Mary alone

Not legal, reliable, acceptable witnesses

One surprises in resurrection narrative

NOT included in Paul’s list

NOT believed

and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

11But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Though Peter did investigate

12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb.

He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home,wondering what had happened

so told no one - no reason - who believe them

8Then they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them.

And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

Here is evidence story credible

Not fact invented

This evidence supported by NOT-empty Tomb

NO body

Mark 16.6… Look, there is the place where they laid him.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.But grave-clothes

But grave-clothes

But grave-clothes

But grave-clothes

.... Come and see the place where he was lying.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

But grave-clothes

… Look, there is the place where they laid him.

He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in.

6Then Simon Peter, who had been following him, arrived and went right into the tomb.

He saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, 7and the face cloth, which had been around Jesus’ head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb.

He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home,wondering what had happened

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb.

He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home,wondering what had happened

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Not things take off - if steal body

Nor things resuscitated man remove

Chrysostom saw their pertinence to the notion of robbery of the tomb: “If anyone had removed the body, he would not have stripped it first, nor would he have taken the trouble to remove and roll up the napkin and put it in a place by itself” (In Jo.

Hom.

85.4).

One may add, nor would he have left those costly cloths and spices!

Early in this century H. Latham expounded the view that the wrappings that had been around Jesus lay flat on the tomb’s shelf, vacated by him without disturbing them, and that the napkin that had been about his head retained its shape; he had an artist draw an impressionist picture to illustrate the point (The Risen Master, [Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1901] 29–56

The Evangelist had penned the story of Lazarus, and recorded how Lazarus, at the bidding of Jesus, came forth from his tomb, with the wrappings of the dead still binding him hand and foot, and the napkin on his head; he had to be freed to take up life again in this world.

Jesus on the contrary left his wrappings in the grave as a sign of his resurrection into the life of God’s eternal order.

17 There is a clear contact between Mary’s attempt to take hold of Jesus and the scene in Matt 28:9, where the women to whom Jesus appears “seized” (ἐκράτησαν) the feet of Jesus and prostrated themselves before him.

In this context the term κρατέω is virtually synonymous with ἅπτομαι (so Bultmann, 687 n. 1).

It is even possible that Matthew’s statement about the women generalizes the action of Mary.

Remembering Eastern customs, we are probably to assume that Mary did just what Matthew describes: she prostrated herself before Jesus and sought to clasp his feet.

It was an act of joyful adoration combined with a simple desire to hold Jesus, not because she feared to lose him again, but in a perfectly normal expression of affection.

Blank remarks, “Contact belongs to the primary ways in which man in this world becomes aware of outward reality.

Evidences of reality of resurrection

Supporting testimony those who saw him

Women [without] Mary & Mary alone

Explanations of difference women allowed to greet Jesus

But Jesus met them, saying, “Greetings!”

They came to him, held on to his feet and worshiped him.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

Aland, K. (2009).

Synopsis of the Four Gospels ().

Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?

Who are you looking for?”

Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

16Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni” (which means Teacher).17Jesus

replied, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father.

Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”