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John 20:17
Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.
Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.
Verse John 20:17. _TOUCH ME NOT_] μη μου απτου, _Cling not to me_. απτομαι has this sense in Job 31:7, where the Septuagint use it for the Hebrew דבק _dabak_, which signifies to _cleave, cling,_ _sti...
TOUCH ME NOT ... - This passage has given rise to a variety of interpretations. Jesus required Thomas to touch him John 20:27, and it has been difficult to ascertain why he forbade this now to Mary. T...
CHAPTER 20 _ 1. The Empty Sepulchre. (John 20:1 .)_ 2. The Risen One and Mary of Magdala. (John 20:11 .) 3. The Gathered Company and He in the midst. (John 20:19 .) 4. The Second Time. ...
JESUS AND MARY. Mary has apparently followed the two disciples back to the tomb. After their departure she looks in, and sees a vision of angels (_cf._ Luke 24:4 ff.). Her thoughts are still full of t...
TOUCH ME NOT, FOR. AM NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER. She, in her gladness, sought to grasp her Lord about the feet. There has been much conjecture as to the reasons underlying the Savior's prohibition...
BEWILDERED LOVE (John 20:1-10)...
But Mary stood weeping outside at the tomb. As she wept she stooped down, and looked into the tomb, and she saw two angels sitting there in white robes, one at the head, and the other at the feet of t...
TOUCH ME NOT. Do not be holding Me. Greek. _hapto._ Only here in John; elsewhere, thirty-nine times. See Matthew 8:3; Matthew 8:18; Matthew 9:20; Matthe
_Touch me not, for_, &c. This is a passage of well-known difficulty. At first sight the reason given for refraining from touching would seem to be more suitable to a permission to touch. It is perhaps...
THE MANIFESTATION TO MARY MAGDALENE 11–18. It has been noticed that the three manifestations in this Chapter correspond to the three divisions of the Prayer in Chap. 17. Here we see Jesus Himself; in...
ΜΉ Μ. ἌΠΤΟΥ. This is a passage of well-known difficulty. At first sight the reason given for refraining from touching would seem to be more suitable to a permission to touch. Comp. John 4:44. It is pe...
Ver 10. Then the disciples went away again to their own home. 11. But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, 12. And sees two an...
_JESUS APPEARED TO MARY MAGDALENE -- JOHN 20:11-18:_ Mary returned to Jesus' tomb and this time she looked inside and saw two angels dressed in white. They asked her why she was weeping and then after...
ΆΠΤΟΥ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΤΟΜΑΙ (G681) с _gen._ трогать, хватать, держаться. Иисус просит ее не хвататься за Него (Brown). _Praes. imper._ используется для выражения запрета, она должна п...
TOUCH ME NOT; FOR I AM NOT YET ASCENDED, &C.— The objectors to the resurrection of Jesus, have inferred fromthis circumstance, that Christ's body was not a real tangible body: but this could never be...
THE APPEARANCE TO MARY _Text: John 20:11-18_ 11 But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping: so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; 12 and she beholdeth two angels in white...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 20:11-23 Below is an Analysis of our present passage:— Our Lord had triumphed o’er the grave, "as he said." Before the sun of this world had risen upon the thir...
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. JESUS SA...
6 There is a blessed contrast between the resurrection of Lazarus and the vivification of our Lord. Lazarus saw corruption. Christ saw none. Lazarus was raised bound foot and hand with grave clothes a...
THE RESURRECTION 1-10. The Resurrection. Visits of Mary Magdalene, and of Peter and John to the tomb of Jesus. (For the Resurrection appearances see on the synoptics, especially on St. Matthew; for th...
THE APPEARANCE TO MARY MAGDALENE. This is different from that of Matthew 28:9, but identical with that of Mark 16:9....
TOUCH ME NOT, etc.] 'I have not come to renew the old intimacy, but am on the point of returning home to My Father. When I am enthroned in heaven, you shall touch Me once more, not however with the ph...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 20 THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! 20:1-10 V1 On Sunday morning, Mary (who was from Magdala) went to the grave. It was very early a...
TOUCH ME NOT; FOR I AM NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER. — The probable explanation of these words is to be found in the fact that she had cast herself at His feet with the customary reverential embrace...
XXII. _ THE RESURRECTION._ "Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the tomb. She runneth therefore, and...
_Jesus reveals Himself to Mary_....
Μή μου ἅπτου, “noli me tangere,” not because it was indecorous (Luke 7:38); nor because she wished to assure herself by touch that the appearance was real, a test which He did not prevent His disciple...
THE JOY OF THE RESURRECTION John 20:11-18 Mary wept with hopeless sorrow, with no thought that Jesus was risen, and anxious only to secure the body of her dear Master and Friend. It is because we kno...
This is the story of a dark morning and a lost Master. The strange excitement of it all is evidenced by the fact that the three disciples named are all seen running. Mary ran to tell the disciples, an...
(4) Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my (d) brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto (e) my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your Go...
I will not leave you again; be not in a hurry to touch me; you shall all have this pleasure. I will remain with you some time, before my ascension. Announce my resurrection to my apostles. You shall s...
MARY MAGDALENE AGAIN AT THE SEPULCHER John 20:11-18. “ _And Mary stood at the sepulcher without_, _weeping_, _and while she continued to weep_, _she looked into the sepulcher_, _and saw two angels in...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 1-18. 1. The other women who are represented in the Synoptics as going with Mary Magdalene to the sepulchre are not mentioned here, and the appearance to...
FIFTH PART: 20:1-29. THE RESURRECTION. The fourth part of the Gospel has shown us the Jewish people carrying _unbelief_ with reference to Jesus even to complete apostasy, and consummating this spirit...
“ _Jesus says to her: Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father;but go to my brethren and say to them,I ascend to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God._ 18. _Mary Magdalene com...
2. VV. 11-18. Mary Magdalene has just been for the two chief disciples the messenger announcing the empty sepulchre; she receives the first manifestation of the Lord, and becomes for all the messenge...
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...
In John 20:1-31 is the resurrection, and this in a remarkable light. No such outward circumstance is here as in Matthew, no soldiers trembling, no walk with disciples, but as ever the person of God's...
_‘TOUCH ME NOT’_ Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father. John 20:17 This is the second word spoken by our Lord after His Resurrection; and it was spoken to the s...
17._Touch me not. _This appears not to agree with the narrative of Matthew; for he expressly says, that the women _held him _By The Feet,_and worshipped him, _(Matthew 28:9.) Now, since he allowed him...
In chapter 20, we have, in a summary of several of the leading facts among those which took place after the resurrection of Jesus, a picture of all the consequences of that great event, in immediate c...
JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, TOUCH ME NOT,.... Not that his body was an aerial one, or a mere "phantom", which could not be touched; the prohibition itself shows the contrary; and besides, Christ's body was...
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and _to_ my God, and your God. Ver. 17....
_Jesus saith unto her, Mary_ Expressing himself with an emphasis, and that air of kindness and freedom, with which he had been wont to speak to her. This one word, _Mary_, was like that to the discipl...
TOUCH ME NOT; when Christ met the two women, Matthew 28:9, they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Mary might now be approaching for this purpose. But Jesus wished her without delay to...
THE GRAVE: OPEN AND EMPTY! (vs.1-10) Though others besides Mary of Magdala went together to the grave early on the first day of the week, yet in John she is singled out, a woman devoted, but incredu...
11-18 We are likely to seek and find, when we seek with affection, and seek in tears. But many believers complain of the clouds and darkness they are under, which are methods of grace for humbling th...
There are in this verse two no mean difficulties: the one about the sense of the prohibition, when our Saviour forbade this woman to touch him; when after his resurrection _\MATTHEW 28:9\_ he suffered...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians And that He Himself is not God over all, and the Father, but His Son, He [shows when He] says, "I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God...
John 20:17 Jesus G2424 said G3004 (G5719) her G846 not G3361 cling G680 (G5732) Me G3450 for...
JESUS' APPEARANCE TO MARY (JOHN 20:11)....
‘Jesus says to her, “Do not retain me, for I am not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God'.” ‘Do not ret...
John 20:17. JESUS SAITH UNTO HER, TOUCH ME NOT; FOR I AM NOT YET ASCENDED TO THE FATHER; BUT GO TO MY BRETHREN, AND SAY UNTO THEM, I ASCEND UNTO MY FATHER AND YOUR FATHER, AND MY GOD AND YOUR GOD. Man...
The paragraph now before us presents an advance upon that last considered. There we had only preparation for the risen Jesus; here we have Jesus risen. There all was negative: Jesus was not in the tom...
TOUCH ME NOT (μη μου απτου). Present middle imperative in prohibition with genitive case, meaning "cease clinging to me" rather than "Do not touch me." Jesus allowed the women to take hold of his fe...
TOUCH ME NOT Compare (Matthew 28:9); "and they came and held him by the feet." A contradiction has been supposed. Three views are held: (1) That Jesus speaks to Mary as the High Priest fulfilling t...
John 20:17 Ascension the Condition of the Spiritual Contact I. The brief saying of the text is pregnant with the deepest doctrine. It teaches us how poor a thing is bodily presence, even if it were t...
John 20:15 Next to the absence of all notice of our Lord's mother, few things are more remarkable in the narrative of the period after the resurrection, than the silence respecting John. I. John was...
John 20:11 First Appearance of the Risen Lord I. It was a real body that appeared to Mary. "Touch Me not," said Jesus. Then it was _possible_to touch Him. If not, prohibition was unnecessary. Wisdom...
John 20:10 Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre We may see the following things in this passage: I. Mary's sorrow. (1) She sought for a lost Christ, and looked for Him where He was not to be found. (2)...
John 20:11. _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 othe...
John 20:1. _The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher._ Her love for her Lord made her rise e...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. CHARACTERS: Mary Magdalene, Peter, John, two angels, Jesus, disciples, Thomas. CONCLUSION: He who gave His life as a ransom resumed His life again by the mighty pow...
John 20:2. _They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre._ After Mr. WEST had examined with all possible care every circumstance recorded of the resurrection, he in substance remarks, that John...
MARY STOOD CRYING. She thought the body had been stolen. AND SAW TWO ANGELS THERE.' Angels point to something supernormal. SAW JESUS STANDING THERE. The first human to see the; risen Lord was a woman....
_But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping_ LESSONS 1_._ Christians are often sorrowful, when, if they had clearer knowledge and stronger faith, they would rejoice. 2. Angels sympathize with...
_Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not_ TOUCH NOT What a strange thing that both the old world and the new should have began with the same prohibition. (_Dean Burgon_.) NOLI ME TANGERE: The lesson is...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:17 I HAVE NOT YET ASCENDED does not deny the fact that Jesus’ spirit went to the Father in heaven at the moment of his death (see note on 19:30). Rather, it means that his bodily...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:1 Chapter John 20:1 covers the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial: the empty tomb, the risen Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene, and Jesus’ appearances to his disciples...
Jesus rises from the dead Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-11; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18;...
28-31 CHAPTER 20 VER. 1. _On the first day of the week._ Literally, of the Sabbath, the week being called the Sabbath, after its principal day, or the day of the Pasch. (see on Mat 28:1) _Mary Magda...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ St. John’s narrative of the Resurrection is not general. He describes how _faith_ in the risen Lord was established in his own case and in the case of the other discip...
EXPOSITION JOHN 20:1 2. The complete glorification of Jesus in his resurrection. The record pauses for the awful day of that great sabbath, and resumes the marvelous recital when the greatest event i...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to John, chapter 20. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and she saw the stone was...
1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:3; 2 Corinthians 6:18; 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 7:9;
Touch me not [μ η μ ο υ α π τ ο υ]. The verb, primarily, means to fasten to. Hence it implies here, not a mere momentary touch, but a clinging to. Mary thought that the old relations between her Lord...
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST John 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The linen clothes. Before we discuss the resurrection with you, we want you to consider with us the manner in which Christ was wrapped arou...
Touch me not — Or rather, Do not cling to me (for she held him by the feet,) Matthew 28:9. Detain me not now. You will have other opportunities of conversing with me. For I am not ascended to my Fathe...
If Jesus had not yet ascended to the Father, how could He have committed His Spirit to the Father? PROBLEM: Jesus said here “I have not yet ascended to My Father.” But earlier on the cross He said, “...