11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
John 20:11-16
© Hector Lee, 2011
I found out Gwendolin’s father, Herman, recently died. I too grieve as Gwendolin has lost a parent and mentor. I remember him as a reflective, thoughtful and generous man.
As he knew I illustrated, he once gave me a subtle and beautiful idea of the Resurrection. In the gospel of John, Mary Magdalene is distraught with the death of Jesus and when she sees him, whom she mistakes him for the gardener. He saw Jesus as a gardener carrying and presenting a large bouquet of flowers, as a symbol and sign of the joy and beauty of new life.
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