<p>28:9<i> And Jesus met them, saying: Greetings- </i>Having changed His plan of meeting the women in Galilee, see on :7&nbsp;He goes ahead of you into Galilee. &quot;Greetings&quot; is otherwise translated &quot;Joy&quot; or &quot;Rejoice&quot;. The last two times the Lord had heard it, it had been addressed to Him sarcastically by His abusers (26:49; 27:29). But it is the word also used of how the shepherd 'rejoices' on finding the lost sheep (18:13). This perhaps was the sense of the Lord's joy upon meeting them; the whole process of death and resurrection had been in order to seek and find the disciples. And surely the Lord was consciously aware of His prediction of Jn. 16:22: &quot;I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice&quot; s.w. &quot;greetings&quot;. But again it was as if He had to get them to rejoice, rather than them doing so on their own initiative; their weakness is so emphasized.</p><p><i>And they came and took hold of his feet and worshipped him- </i>The Lord appeared to them from a slight distance and did not go up to them and initiate physical contact. Rather did He announce Himself and leave them to come to Him.&nbsp;The Lord, straight after His resurrection, repeats verbatim the Angels words to Mary: &ldquo;Woman, why are you weeping?&rdquo; (Jn. 20:13,15). Likewise, when He appears to the women in Mt. 28:9,10, He repeats the Angel&rsquo;s words of Mt. 28:5,7. This indicates the unity which He felt with them especially after His resurrection.</p><p>Is &quot;took hold of his feet&quot; to be connected with how Mt. 18:29 describes casting oneself down at another&rsquo;s feet implying a desperate request for mercy? Or at least, a desperate request (Mk. 5:22; 7:25; Lk. 8:41), as Mary had made herself earlier (Jn. 11:32). Their experience of the death and resurrection of the Lord elicited within them a sense of their unworthiness. Or was it simply because they feared He would disappear, as in Jn. 20:17? The same Greek words for falling down at the feet and worshipping are used about how Cornelius worshipped Peter (Acts 10:25) and how the believers at Philadelphia will be worshipped (Rev. 3:9). Trinitarians therefore display their Biblical ignorance and paucity of Biblical scholarship by making any claim that the fact Jesus was worshipped by the feet therefore means He was God. That is simply not the case.</p>