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NASB | John 20:17 Jesus *said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Do not hold Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.'" |
Bible Question:
Matthew 28:9 says that when Mary saw Jesus resurrected, she "clasped his feet" and worshiped him. Then John 20:17 says that Jesus told Mary not to hold him because he hadn't yet ascended to the Father. Anyone know why the discrepancy? And why would it be important not to touch Jesus until his ascension? And why a few days later did Jesus insist that Thomas touch his hands and side (he still had not ascended)? Thank you! |
Bible Answer: Plinsky, Jesus is discouraging Mary from "clinging" to his physical prescence because He knows He must ascend to the Father and his throne in his glorified state. He is saying do not cling to me with the idea that I am rsien and will be staying here with in this form. "The condition of Christ's risen humanity By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion.(Lk 24:30, 39-40, 41-43; Jn 20:20, 27;21:9, 13-15) Yet at the same time this authentic, real body possesses the new properties of a glorious body: not limited by space and time but able to be present how and when he wills; for Christ's humanity can no longer be confined to earth, and belongs henceforth only to the Father's divine realm.(Mt 28:9, 16-17; Lk 24:15,36; Jn 20:14, 17, 19,26; 21:4.) For this reason too the risen Jesus enjoys the sovereign freedom of appearing as he wishes: in the guise of a gardener or in other forms familiar to his disciples, precisely to awaken their faith. (Mk 16:12; Jn 20:14-16; 21;4,7) Christ's Resurrection was not a return to earthly life, as was the case with the raisings from the dead that he had performed before Easter: Jairus' daughter, the young man of Naim, Lazarus. These actions were miraculous events, but the persons miraculously raised returned by Jesus' power to ordinary earthly life. At some particular moment they would die again. Christ's Resurrection is essentially different. In his risen body he passes from the state of death to another life beyond time and space. At Jesus' Resurrection his body is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit: he shares the divine life in his glorious state, so that St. Paul can say that Christ is "the man of heaven".(1 Cor 15:35-50)" The Catechism Emmaus |