El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII. JUNE II; JOHN 20
lI-3O.
Principal Text-"Now Is Christ Risen
from the Dead"-I. Cor. 15-2O-JSsus
Triumphs Over the Grave and Kisses
to Glorious immortality.

H. But Mary stood without" AS
soon as she had told the disciples her
Tears she returned to the sepulcher, and
reached 1t probably soon after Peter and
John had left for home. ''And as she wept
she stopped down and looked into the
sepulcher." Because she was anxious to
see whether she might not after all.
be mistaken about the absence of the
body.
In white raiment. White signifying the
purity of their character. Matthew speaks
OF the angels raiment being white as
snow, and his countenance like lightning.
The one at the head, the other at the
feet" The idea is apparently that of
sitting and watching the body.
IL. She saith unto them While the
other women were terrified, Mary seems
to have had no fear, so wholly was she
taken up with her great desire of finding
her Lord. She was ready to brave more
heroically than ever all danger if she
might only find his corpse.-Jacobus.
They have taken away my Lord This
has been applied typically to those who
have tried to take the divine nature of
Jesus from the Scriptures, and left them
but empty tomb.
IA. She turned herself back" She was
outside the cave, looking in, and now she
turned away, perhaps hearing footsteps
behind her. And saw Jesus standing,
and knew not that it was Jesus" Why
She had her eyes dimmed with tears, and
(O her mind occupied and excited with
other thoughts; besides, go she was not
at all expecting TO see him alive; "a his
garments must certainly have been
changed, as the soldiers had those he
was accustomed to wear; 60 she may
not have looked up to his face, perhaps
hardly looked at all; co. the long agony
on the cross must have made some diff
ference in his appearance.
10. She, supposing Him to be the gar
dener, and therefore servant of Joseph
of Arimathea, who owned the tomb and,
of course. friendly. No other person
would be likely to be there at so ee1ly
an hour, unless it were the Roman guard.
of which she probably knew Eoth,hg.
And L will take him away" See ssat
responsibility on herself.
16. Jesus saith unto her, MARI" This
word spoken in the old, familiar s-es,
and showing that Jesus knew who she
was, led her instantly to recognize Him.
The voice is one of the last things to
change. I have known ministers. after
many years absence, to be recognized by
the voice, when all things else had
changed beyond recognition She
saith unto him, Rabboni.' Hebrew for
my master teacher.
II. Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me
not" The verb primarily means to faS-
ten to; hence 1t implies here, not a mere
momentary touch, but a cfinging to-
M. r. Vincent. The translation touch
Me not" is inadequate and gives a false
impression. The verb (haptesthaD does
not mean to touch" and handle" with
view to seeing whether his body was
real; this Christ not only allowed but
enjoined ". q; Luke XIV. 49, comp. L.
John l., y; rather it means to hold on
to" and ''cling to-" Moreover it Is the
present (not aorist) imperative; and the
full meaning will therefore be, DO not
continue holding Me-" or simply hold Me
not" For I am not yet assembled to My
Father" This is the reason given why
Mary should not cling to Jesus at this
time How is 1t a reason? % 1t means,
do not stop now to embrace Me, but has
ten away to the disciples, for you will
have other opportunities to express your
devotion to Me, since I remain some time
on earth before I ascend to heaven Or
(2) Mary would have held her Lord fast
with the grasp of earthly affection and
love. She seems tc have thought that
Jesus was to remain henceforth with
them in the body. jesus reminds her that
this is not true. but that only after His
ascension could the.ts be the truest, full
est, most spiritual expressions of devo-
ton. (3) Grimm explains it thus: DO
not seek to learn by touching Me whether
1 am even now clothed with a body; there
is no need of this search, for have not
assembled to the Father''-and am, there
fore still in the f1esh-'but go unto My
brethren" etc. But go to my breth-
rem Here, for the first time, Jesus
speaks of His disciples as brethren.''-
Hovey. In spite Of their failures. the dis
ciples were His brethren in love, and
service, and fellowship with God being
sons of the same Father. 81 ascend"
Is. Mary Magdalene came and told
She obeyed the command of Jesus.
10. 1.-The same day which He
arose. During this day Jesus appeared
five times. 1.-The doors were shut
for fear of the Jews" who might easily
be angry at the disappearance of Jesus
from the tomb, and the rumors of His
resurrection. Where the disciples were
assembled" in some upper room in Je-
rusalem belonging to some diciple.
Game Jesus and stood in the midst"
Either by some miracle, as when He
walked on the sea, or escaped from the
mob at Nazareth, or by quietly opening
the door. The fact that Jesus entered
through the closed door does not indicate
that the body other than the natu-
raj body which had been laid in the
grave; and Christ's language at this very
time, as reported by Luke, "A spirit hath
not flesh and bones, We see Me hava."
appears to be conclusive that His resur-
rection body was His physical body.
90 "Shewed unto them His hands and
His side" To prove to them that He
was the same Jesus. with the same body.
that had been crucified, but now come to
life again. This essential to the
conplete proof of His resurrection. Dur
ing forty days (Acts) Jesus appeared ten
or eleven times, on one occasion to more
than five hundred at once. Thus the
proof of His resurrection was complete.
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