05-24-2010, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by John Kesler
John's Mary Magdalene not only seems ignorant of any guards at the tomb; she even posits that the body had been moved by the gardener(s).
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John 20:
11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 12and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ 14When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’
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Remember that in John's story, the tomb is never said to be Joseph's, and the reason Jesus was buried in a garden tomb is because of expediency.
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John 19:
41Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. 42And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
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This version of the burial undermines any apologetic value that Matthew's guards-at-the-tomb had, since one of Jesus' own followers didn't think that the "guards" precluded removal of the body. |
I don’t mean to get off topic, but John is interesting. I can’t find anything in John to suggest that he thought that Jesus’ mother was named Mary. Feel free to research this issue yourself and get back to me if I overlooked something.
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