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Mary Magdalene's experience at the empty tomb highlights the transition from grief to hope. Jesus' resurrection offers a "Before" and "After" narrative of personal transformation for all believers.
Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John ... She goes alone to the empty tomb on Easter morning, where Jesus appears to her first. She gets the first ...
For scientists, they are still debating whether or not he even died on a cross at all. This is what’s known as the Swoon ...
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there ... you could not remain enclosed in the tomb: the tomb is empty because he - the Father - "did not abandon you to the nether world, nor let your ...
In St. John’s telling of the Easter story (John chapter 20), Mary Magdalene shows up first ... but all she finds is an empty tomb. She can’t make sense of it. Then the men show up.
If Mary Magdalene so often embodies the “scarlet woman” trope ... John’s Gospel makes her the very first witness, discovering the empty tomb and then reporting back this extraordinary news to the rest ...
The Gospels give some intriguing clues to the identity of Jesus’ famous follower—who was unwed, moved freely, and provided ...
It was during Easter of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic lockdown, that I realized that Mary Magdalene ... going to the tomb in the dark, we know that the tomb is empty; we go through Lent ...
When Mary Magda-lene went to the tomb early on Easter Sunday, it was to make ready her Lord and saviour’s body with perfumes ...
Easter may be behind us, but the power of Jesus’ resurrection remains. As I was going over the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ ...
She stood by the empty tomb and cried until two angels spoke ... This isn’t a story just for Mary Magdalene or Peter and John. This is also a “Before” and “After” story for me and ...