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1 | why jesus had not allowed mary to touch | John 20:17 | jayaraj | 202543 | ||
dear fellow members please answer me. after resurection why jesus told mary not to touch him, where as before acession he blessed and touched others. | ||||||
2 | why jesus had not allowed mary to touch | John 20:17 | flinkywood | 202555 | ||
Dear J, It’s unlikely that Jesus is demeaning a woman who loved him ardently and who stood by the cross while 10 other disciples ran and hid; and even though later in the Gospel of John we see Thomas needing physical proof to believe in Jesus’ reincarnation (where Mary needed only to hear his voice), this doesn’t make Thomas somehow more privileged to touch the Lord. A clue is that Jesus asked Mary not “to cling”, which anticipates His later instruction that His work would not be complete until he ascended to the Father and sent the Holy Spirit to be with them (John 16:7). The teaching is that the disciples should not assume He’d returned for good and would remain with them as He was. Good thing Mary was so reasonable; other wise, we might have had a different NT. | ||||||
3 | why jesus had not allowed mary to touch | John 20:17 | crabbycosmo | 202569 | ||
I don't know where I developed this belief, so please comment or criticize(nicely pls) on what you may think about it. I had believed that Jesus said this because until he ascended to the Father, He still had to remain "clean" in the meaning of the Law of Moses. The law of Moses states that if you touch a corpse, you are unclean for a certain length of time. If Jesus was to ascend to the Father immediately after seeing Mary Magdalene, he had to be careful and remain clean. The thinking here being that until he ascended to the Father and offered himself to the Father - we are considered dead (corpses) Once he ascended, his offering was accepted and we believed in Jesus, then we were alive and then "born again" when we received the Holy Spirit. If Mary had touched him, he would be unclean and his offering would be unacceptable to the Father and we would all be doomed. |
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4 | why jesus had not allowed mary to touch | John 20:17 | Val | 202570 | ||
No I don't think that is it. I believe she was just in a state and He was in a way saying get a hold of yourself. We know that Christ work was finished on the cross. He was resurrected and that showed the Father's acceptance of the sacrifice. He went to the Father so that the Holy Spirit could be poured out. | ||||||