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STONE HAD BEEN REMOVED (Jn 20:1-9)

Posted under Reflections on April 22nd, 2014 by

Why was the stone removed from the tomb?
Was it for Jesus to come out of the tomb?
Jesus did not have the need for the stone to be removed.
he had walked into the closed doors. He appeared to the disciples
and disappeared the same way as he appeared.
Jesus did not have the need for stone to be removed.

Stoned was removed for the sake of the disciples.
Why?
Then only the disciples could enter into the mystery of the
Resurrection. Then only they could see resurrection
physically and practically.
Empty tomb was the only sign at the beginning.
They were shocked; they ran away; they were afraid of the emptiness.
But belief entered into their closed hearts.

The Body was not stolen.
If stolen then they would have carried the dead body with the cloths.
The body would have been decomposing and they would have had the need of
the cloths to carry the body.
Here we see the cloths rolled up and the cloth that had covered the head rolled
in a different place. So it was done by the person as if he got up from sleep
to roll up his bed. ( as he used to tell the sick persons to take up the bed and walk.
It meant a miracle had taken place)
If someone were to say the wild dogs had eaten the body; then one wonders how the
wild dogs roll up the bed and keep it safe in different places.

The stone was rolled for the disciples to see all these facts and to believe in the Resurrection.

20.04.2014 HE SAW HE BELIEVED

Posted under Reflections on April 19th, 2014 by

GOSPEL READING: JOHN 20:1-9

Stone was removed from the entrance of the tomb. Body of Jesus was not there. Burial cloths were lying there. The cloth that had covered the head was not with the burial cloths but was separately rolled up in another place. These are the things that they saw.

Immediate reaction of Mary of Magdala was that they had stone the body from the tomb. She only saw the stoned rolled and the tomb empty. But the other disciples saw the cloths. This gave them the belief in the resurrection. If anyone had stolen the body then he would have taken the body with the cloths. But the person has disappeared leaving the cloths could only mean to the disciples that he is risen that is why the author says ‘he saw and believed’.

கண்டார்@ நம்பினார். என்ன கண்டார்@ என்ன நம்பினார். அவர் கண்டது வெறுமையான கல்லறை@ துணிகள் அங்கேயே கிடந்தன@ தலையில் சுற்றியிருந்த துணி தணியாக இருந்தது. அவர் நம்பியது அவர் உயிர்த்தார் என்று. உடல் திருடப்பட்டிருந்தால் அவர்கள் துணியோடு அல்லவா எடுத்துச் சென்றிருக்க வேண்டும். எனவே உடல் திருடப்படவில்லை.

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