<p>20:11 <em>But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb</em>- Mary &ldquo;stood without&rdquo;, and yet the same word is used in a rather negative context elsewhere in the Gospels: Lk. 8:20 Mary and His brethren standing without; LK. 13:25 the rejected &ldquo;stand without&rdquo; with the door closed, seeking for their Lord; Jn. 18:16 Peter stood at the door without. It&rsquo;s as if she was in the shoes of the rejected. And yet she is graciously accepted in a wonderful way by the risen Lord. And she is our representative. Her weeping likewise could be read negatively; for she ought to have gone to the tomb after three days with full faith and joy in expectation that the Lord had risen as He promised. Hence His question to her as to why she is weeping (:13,15).&nbsp;As noted earlier in this chapter, the Gospels are full of self-criticism of themselves as writers and their fellow disciples, stressing their weakness, and slow struggle towards the faith they now urged men and women to accept.</p>