Re:Verse passage – John 20:1-18 (day three)
“They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
Mary’s statement here radiates helplessness. She had grown accustomed to living as a powerless, insignificant, unnoticed person of little value in her society. That is, until Jesus saw her. For the first time in her life, she had felt what it is like to matter, to live as something other than a cipher. But now the one who had seen her was apparently gone, himself the victim of that same uncaring world which had tried to teach her that she had no worth. “They have taken him away” mourns that the world has reasserted its position as an overwhelming force that swallows hope whole. In short order, Mary would encounter Jesus and find that the world is powerless after all.
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