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NASB | John 20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and *saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 20:14 After saying this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. |
Bible Question: why would the image of his holy spirit be different from the image they custom to seeing? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Pem... John Calvin commented on this verse as follows: "It may be asked, Whence arose this mistake, that Mary does not recognize Jesus, with whom she must have been intimately acquainted? Some think that He appeared in a different form, but I think that the fault lay rather in the eyes of the women, as Luke (Luke 24:16) says of the two disciples, their eyes were withheld from knowing Him. We will not say, therefore, that Christ was continually assuming new shapes, like Proteus [in ancient Greek mythology, a god who could take on different appearances] but that it is in the power of God, who gave eyes to men, to lessen their sharpness of vision whenever He thinks proper, that seeing they may not see. In Mary we have an example of the mistakes into which the human mind frequently falls. Though Christ presents Himself to our view, yet we imagine that He assumes various shapes, so that our senses conceive of any thing rather than of the true Christ; for not only are our powers of understanding liable to be deceived, but they are also bewitched by the world and by Satan, that they may have no perception of the truth [2 Corinthians 4:4]." In Him, Doc |
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