A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                        HE KNEW HER BY NAME  PART IX

"I, Mary Magdalene, am at the tomb of my Lord....I am here all by myself.... Peter and John were here with me.... But they have gone back home... However, I cannot leave... Neither can I stop crying.... I decided to look into the tomb again.... I am not sure why I did so.... After all, I knew the tomb was empty... As I looked again I did see something.... It was not a body... It was an angel... In fact, I saw two angels... They must have been there all along.... But I did not see them before.... Why would they be there?.... Perhaps they know where the Body of my Lord is.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn of Mary Magdalene's encounter with two angels...

                  ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                    HE KNEW HER BY NAME PART IX

Let's now return to Mary Magdalene. Peter and John have gone back home but she remains at the place of the tomb. However, her Lord and Saviour is no longer in the tomb. Without Jesus she is lost and without hope...So, feeling hopeless, she begins to weep. But she does something more and it is something which does not make sense in the natural as you can read in John 20:11-12

But Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' Body had been, one at the head and the other at the feet.

Mary does something which is not very logical for, after all, she has already looked in the tomb and knows that it is empty. This has been confirmed by Peter and John. Why then does she look again? Is she hoping against hope that her Lord's Body will miraculously re-appear? That is not what happens. But what happens is so much more wonderful than Mary Magdalene could have ever imagined. It begins with her seeing two beings she has not see before: two angels.