John 20:11-12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white — The resurrection color, the color of joy and gladness: “two angels in white”—
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John 20:11-12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. You see, dear friends, love is very patient and persevering. The other disciples had gone away home, but not so...
John 20:12
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Sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. I have no doubt that the angel who sat at the feet was quite as content to sit there as the other was to sit at the head. If any two of you are sent upon the Lord’s business, do not pick and choose as to where you shall be, or what you shall do. “One at the...
John 20:13
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. Grief has not many words. It is apt to repeat itself, as the Lord himself did in Gethsemane when he prayed three times, using the same words.
John 20:13
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? They could not understand Mary’s tears, their question seemed to say “Christ the Lord is risen from the dead, and all the streets of heaven are ringing with hallelujahs because the great Conqueror has returned bearing the spoils of his victory. Why weepest thou? Art not thou one of those for whom...
John 20:14-15
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Christ often repeats the words of his messengers, as if to endorse them. The angels said, “Woman, why weepest thou?” The angels’ Master says the same. I pray him, tonight, not only to give me...
John 20:14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. A strange and sad unbelief had taken possession of her, and there is nothing that blinds the eye so quickly as unbelief. Christ is near thee, poor soul, near thee in thy trouble, but thou dost not know that it is Jesus. Open thine eyes, may...
John 20:15
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Whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Did it occur to her that, possibly, the gardener objected to having a corpse in the garden, and that, therefore, he had come early in the morning, and taken it away? We can hardly...
John 20:15
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Her supposition was wrong in one way, but right in another, for Jesus is the Gardener, and his Church is his garden. There was one...
John 20:16
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Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. She said, “My Master, my Rabbi, my Teacher, my Leader, my dear Master;” and I expect she said it with great exultation. She delighted to have her Master again, to have her Teacher again; for, to be without her Teacher, and without her Lord, was a...
John 20:16
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus saith unto her, Mary. In the simple utterance of her name, there were tones which she could not mistake, it was the sweetest music she had heard since her Lord’s last message from the cross: “Mary.” “Why, surely,” she must have thought, “it was the Master’s voice calling me by name!” Joh_20:16. She turned herself, and saith unto him,...
John 20:17
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Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; — Or, as the words may be read, “Hold me not; detain me not; “ — Joh_20:17. For I am not yet ascended to my Father: “I have to go away from you, so do not imagine that you can hold me back. Nay, the time for such communications with me is past, for I am now in another condition. I will communicate with you...
John 20:17
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Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: “There will be time enough for the fellowship your heart craves:” — Joh_20:17. But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. Practical service is better than personal rapture. Mary would fain have held her...
John 20:18
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, That was a very different message from her first one. Then she came and said, “He is gone; the tomb is empty; the stone is rolled away;” now she comes with the joyful tidings, “I have seen our risen Lord.” Joh_20:18. And that he had spoken these things unto her. Sometimes, we...
John 20:18-19
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Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. If they had...
John 20:18
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Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. She was a true woman — one whom they had known well enough to be quite able to trust her, and her witness ought to have been believed, but there were some that doubted.
John 20:19
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Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you. How he came there we do not knew, but doors cannot shut him out. Is there any door between my soul and Christ tonight then? Have I...
John 20:19
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Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. He has not risen from the tomb many hours before we find him thus coming to his disciples. His love to them was too great to...
John 20:20
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And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. That was enough to make them glad. The gladdest sight out of heaven, and the gladdest sight in heaven itself, is to see the Lord.
John 20:20
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. That they might be sure it was he — the same who had died by crucifixion — that they might see how intimate he was with them — familiar — that his scarcely healed wounds should be seen by them. Joh_20:20. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. Oh! for such a sight!...