On this Easter Morning, we get to experience the warmth and excitement of the glorious resurrection of Christ Jesus. A resurrection that changed the world, brought hope to all people and ultimately saved human kind. A resurrection, so important, that billions of people gather in churches all over the world today to celebrate the joyous occasion. Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene also celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ as her savior stood before her three days after his death. It was not a famous official, or a group of respectable men that Jesus first appeared to. He did not run out into the center of town professing the salvation of man. He appeared to a confused and lonely woman as she wept by the side of his empty tomb. In the time of Jesus, women were not allowed to testify in court. Women’s accounts of a story we not nearly as reliable as a mans. And not only was Mary a woman, but Mary had a pretty bad reputation around town. Mary had been a prostitute, she was considered a sinner and a lowlife and was certainly no
The story, according to the Gospel of John, starts with a very depressed Mary visiting the tomb of her good friend and teacher. Because of the Sabbath restrictions, Sunday morning is the very first time Mary is able to tend to the body of Jesus. So Mary goes, a deeply devoted friend to tend to the body of a great teacher and to mourn the death of a man she loved deeply . When Mary discovers that Jesus’ body is no longer placed in the secure tomb, she freaks out. Being a woman with, in the society of the time, not any power to deal with the situation, Mary runs to tell the disciples of the empty tomb. Now if we were reading this account as early Christians, we would assume that now was the time that Jesus would reveal himself to the world. The woman has discovered somthing is up and has run to tell the people that really matter- the men. But God had another plan for this first Easter morning. Peter and another disciple run quickly to the tomb to see if what Mary had said was true. They arrive there to see that the tomb is in fact open
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