Overheard at the Sports Centre on this morning after the Resurrection Day before:
Mildred: "Did you have a nice day yesterday?"
Mavis: "It was alright. Just did some washing and ironing really."
This seemed a bizarre behaviour for the day that the only human being who has ever conquered death by taking his life back from the grave. Or was it?
Looking into the empty tomb (John 20:6) Peter and John are stunned - so it appears - to see the graveclothes lying there. Why? Because if the body had been stolen the clothes would have gone with it. If the thieves had left the outer burial wrappings they would have been unwound all over the floor. But for sure in the pitch dark they would not have been reconstituted like a banana peel restored without the banana inside.
Then the headcloth. It was entetuligmenon. Sometimes translated folded this rather misses the point. Like as if it had been ironed on Easter Day! No, this is how Lazarus's head wrapping (John 11:44) is described when Jesus resurrected him. The headcloth, somewhat in the manner of a turban, was where it would have been and how it would have but without the head in it!
In a nutshell, John saw and believed. He hadn't seen Jesus at all yet. He just knew that there was no way that the body had done other then rise back to life, and in a manner that meant at once that it was the same body (the tomb was empty) but a different set of properties (the wrapping had been passed through).
Mavis seems to have missed the point about Easter Day quite disastrously. Yet strangely, in spending the day with clothing, she was closer to the glorious reality than she could have imagined!
Looking into the empty tomb (John 20:6) Peter and John are stunned - so it appears - to see the graveclothes lying there. Why? Because if the body had been stolen the clothes would have gone with it. If the thieves had left the outer burial wrappings they would have been unwound all over the floor. But for sure in the pitch dark they would not have been reconstituted like a banana peel restored without the banana inside.
Then the headcloth. It was entetuligmenon. Sometimes translated folded this rather misses the point. Like as if it had been ironed on Easter Day! No, this is how Lazarus's head wrapping (John 11:44) is described when Jesus resurrected him. The headcloth, somewhat in the manner of a turban, was where it would have been and how it would have but without the head in it!
In a nutshell, John saw and believed. He hadn't seen Jesus at all yet. He just knew that there was no way that the body had done other then rise back to life, and in a manner that meant at once that it was the same body (the tomb was empty) but a different set of properties (the wrapping had been passed through).
Mavis seems to have missed the point about Easter Day quite disastrously. Yet strangely, in spending the day with clothing, she was closer to the glorious reality than she could have imagined!
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