Commentary
John 20: 1 – 9
Signs of Life
On that first day of the week, Mary
sees “the stone removed from the tomb.”
Peter and the other disciple find “the burial cloths and the cloth that
had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a
separate place.”
Compare what they find at the
tomb of Jesus and the tomb of Lazarus when Jesus raised him from the dead. The stone still covered the cave when Jesus
and the people arrived. And when Jesus
called, Lazarus came out, his hands and feet were “tied with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth.”
It
was Jesus who “said to them, ‘Untie him and let him go.’” (John 11:44)
Yet, after seeing the tomb of
Jesus, “they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from
the dead.”
How about us? Do we see the signs of God’s life in us and
around us?
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