Easter
Jeremiah 31:1-6, Acts 10:34-43, John 20:1-18 Jesus said to her “ do not touch (hold on to) me, for I have not yet ascended (returned) to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God ’ ”. It was still dark when Mary Magdalene came to the tomb of Jesus. In Jewish culture, they took the first seven days of mourning very serious for Jewish culture was serious about expressing rather than repressing grief, and mourners went to the tomb to bestow final acts of love. However to her surprise MM finds the stone rolled away. She immediately goes to Peter and the disciple who loved Jesus and said that the body of Jesus has been taken away. And the two disciples run to the tomb. Whether they ran to see for themselves out of shock or not taking MM’s words seriously since the witness of women in Judaism was not taken seriously. They saw and they went back believing that the tomb was empty yet they did not understand the scriptu...