Jesus’ resurrection and you (John 20:11-16)
Gary McManus, 05/08/2022Part of the Easter series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
May 8, 2022 John 19:41-42, John 20:11-16
Jesus’ resurrection and you
The Gospel books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
are often studied together because they are so much alike. Scholars have theories about why they are alike and why they are different. John is clearly different. Pastor believes that it is because John’s congregations were different.
Pastor’s Professor, however, noted that Matthew and John run along the same lines on the Jesus resurrected reports.
--the ladies. . .at the tomb. . .the empty tomb. . .seeing Jesus.
John’s Gospels has its own details. Scholars may not be sure why that is. John 19:41: “a garden”.
The word “garden” didn’t mean much of anything to the ancients. It was nothing like what we think of when we see or hear the word.
So, why did John mention it? We don’t know.
Pastor suggests Genesis 2:8. (The word “garden” is only in the Old Testament six times.)
Did not Adam fail/fall/sinned in God’s garden?
Jesus was resurrected, according to John, in a garden—a new life;
a resurrected life. (See Paul: 1 Corinthians 15:22)
Consider it.
John Chapter 20:
Mary saw the tomb open.
Mary concluded that the body has been stolen or
carried away. Peter and (probably) John get to the open tomb
and go in. The disciples have a different conclusion.
John’s Gospel that gives us more details about death, burial and mourning in Jesus’ day than almost any other ancient source. What we know, we know because of John’s record of Lazarus, his death, his family, and Lazarus’ burial.
John’s recorded detail: the body wrappings are there.
The grave clothes are right where the body was laying as if the body were still in the linen wrappings—but there is no body.
(It is what makes the Shroud of Turin so interesting and not all are convinced one way or the other on the Shroud.)
Remember Lazarus? He walked out of his tomb alive again after being in the tomb three days and Lazarus was still wrapped in the linen burial sheets. Jesus’ burial sheets were still in the tomb. The Apostles saw the grave clothes and John states:
“He saw and believed.” (John 20:8)
Then Mary saw Jesus. Mary did not recognize Jesus.
But the voice was the same voice. (John 10:27)
Mary couldn’t see clearly through her own tears?
DaVinci code?
The books suggest that Jesus and Mary were married. And this is what a wife says to her recently dead husband after three days, “Teacher”?
You decide.
Remember Thomas, doubting Thomas.
He was not certain that he would recognize Jesus.
Why not? Was it the resurrected body—a glorified body?
(See John 20:24-28). Thomas saw the wounds, touched them. Jesus wasn’t a ghost or a vision or an illusion. Jesus was resurrected. Jesus was changed (1 Corinthians 15:51).
Jesus was resurrected never to die again.(Romans 6:9) You and I shall have life eternal.
And as Jesus was transformed in resurrection, we are raised to new life in the here and now. (Romans 6:4, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Colossians 2:12, Colossians 3:1 , 2 Corinthians 3:18
Jesus was resurrected never to die again. (1 Peter 3:18)
“Once for all” :Jesus Messiah was the perfect sacrifice
when Jesus died on the cross. (See Isaiah 53:5) Amen.
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