John 20 - Who is it?

"Who is it?" is a game we play with our loved ones.

Mary was standing outside the tomb crying. Peter and John came and went, they have their own thoughts to be sorted out. So she was on her own again. She was just there, crying, helplessly crying. Can't think, can't act.

Looking over to the spot where the Lord was last laid, was there but not anymore. Looking from a distance, not drawing near.

Angels!!! Sitting in the tomb. Two of them, sitting where the body was. Helping her with a question "Why are you crying?"

Taken away, I don't know... where.

The Lord!!! Standing there. Where is there???
- Just behind Mary, looking where she was looking?
- Just beside Mary, hearing her crying to the angels?
When was the Lord there?

Unable to recognise it was the Lord, the Lord asked Mary "Who is it you are looking for?"
Just like the game we play. Hands over the eyes, "Who is it?" "It is Me." Hands removed, eyes opened, head turned and both persons smile at the revelation and recognition.

"Mary."
"Rabboni!"


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10Then the disciples went back to their homes, 11but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13They 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."

14At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15"Woman," he said, "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."
16Jesus said to her, "Mary."
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).