<p>20:15 <em>Jesus said to her: Woman, why do you weep?- </em>This could be understood as a rebuke, seeing she ought to have known that after three days the Lord would rise again. See on :11. Note too that the Lord repeats the Angelic words to her, showing His connection with them now by nature; see on :12,13.</p><p><em>Whom do you seek?- </em>This is another of those questions which fly out of the page to challenge every reader or hearer; whom do <em>we </em>seek? He was still the same Jesus. The Lord was recognized by the Emmaus disciples in the way that He broke the bread. How He broke a loaf of bread open with His hands <em>after </em>His resurrection reflected the same basic style and mannerism which He had employed <em>before </em>His death. Not only the body language but the Lord's choice of words and expressions was similar both before and after His passion. He uses the question &quot;Who are you looking for?&quot; at the beginning of His ministry (Jn. 1:38), just before His death (Jn. 18:4) and also now after His resurrection. And the words of the risen Lord as recorded in Revelation are shot through with allusion to the words He used in His mortal life, as also recorded by John. See on Jn. 21:5,20. &ldquo;Whom do you seek?&rdquo; are words He had used three times in His ministry (Jn. 1:38; 18:4,7). He used words which she ought to have recognized as a catch phrase of the Lord, and thereby have realized that it was the Lord speaking to her. She did, eventually, make the connection; she lived up to the spiritual potential which the Lord realized in her. She replies by exclaiming: Rabboni When three years earlier the Lord had &ldquo;<em>turned </em>as He did again to Mary... and saith... What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi...&rsquo; (Jn. 1:38). And now Mary sees the similarity which the Lord has set up, and joyfully realizes the reality of His resurrection through it.</p><p><em>She, supposing him to be the gardener- </em>That God's Son could be a normal working class person actually says a lot about the humility of God Himself. Jn. 5:17 has been translated: &quot;My Father is a working man to this day, and I am a working man myself&quot;. No less an authority than C.H. Dodd commented: &quot;That the Greek words could bear that meaning is undeniable&quot;. I find especially awesome the way Mary mistakes the risen Lord for a lowly gardener- He evidently dressed Himself in the clothes of a working man straight after His resurrection, a far cry from the haloed Christ of high church art.</p><p><em>Said to him: Sir, if you have taken him from here, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away</em>- Mary addresses the gardener as &ldquo;sir&rdquo;, but this is the same Geek word <em>kurios</em> as is translated &ldquo;Lord&rsquo; a few verses earlier, when she describes Jesus as &ldquo;the Lord&rdquo; (Jn. 20:2,15). It seems to me that she half knew that this person standing there was Jesus. She was half expecting it. &ldquo;They have taken away the Lord&rdquo; (:2) almost sounds as if she felt Him to be alive and already made Lord and Christ. But the sheer grief of the situation distracted her from seeing that it was really Him. In this kind of thing there is, to me at least, the greatest proof of inspiration. It is all so real and therefore credible. She couldn&rsquo;t dare believe that her wildest hope of every grieving person was actually coming true. And in this we surely see some echoes of the slowness to believe that we have actually made it which it seems there will be after the judgment seat experience.</p><p>Her desire to remove the Lord's body may appear strange, seeing He had been buried in an expensive new tomb. She was surely not thinking straight anyway, for it would have been hard for a woman to carry the heavily embalmed corpse of a man on her own. Where did she intend taking it? I suggest she had no concrete idea. She wanted <em>Him</em> for herself; the point of the record is that her focus was so completely upon Him. And in that she is our example, and her disorientation and impractical ideas are exactly what we would expect of someone in that mental situation. The verisimilitude of the narrative comes over so strongly.</p>