Breaking the Word

He proposed another parable to them. "The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder came to him and said, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?' He answered, 'An enemy has done this.' His slaves said to him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?' He replied, 'No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn."'" (Mt 13: 24-30)

Jesus seems to know the details of farming. He knows that the farmer always sows the good seed. But weeds grow always among the crop. No one (no farmer or the slaves) sow the weeds. This is the work of the enemy. Enemy does his work when no one notices. The work of the enemy is to disrupt the work of the farmer. The enemy wants the farmer to get agitated and react which in turn will destroy also some of the good works of the farmer himself.

The slaves want to react immediately. They wanted to remove the evil at once. The workers or the slaves are worried about the weeds and their concern for the wheat is not so helpful to the wheat itself. Their actions and reactions though right turned against the evil yet in effect it has its negative consequence against the good.

The farmer’s concern is about the wheat. He is primary worried about the wheat only and it is positively turned towards the wheat. Weeds are of no concern for the farmer. The farmer does not mind the weeds at all rather not a single wheat should be lost. This positive approach makes him let the weeds to grow among the wheat. 

On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they put him."…

 But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him." When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and said to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni,"  which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me,  for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and what he told her.  (Jn 20:1-2,11-18)

Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning. All the disciples were frightened of the Jews after the death of Jesus and they were afraid to come out of their house. But this woman came out; breaking the fetters of fear. She came out because of her love for Jesus. She came out and this might be because she also believed in the words of Jesus about his own resurrection. Belief and love compelled her to come out of herself.

Her love for Jesus was so much that she wanted to see him only. She wanted to associate with him and commune with him. And this was the reason that she ran to the tomb. She wanted to see him as she has known him; probably in human form. That was why she saw a gardener in the person standing there. She could not go beyond the human form of the gardener.

Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Those who have recognized the Lord should not cling on to him and save the experience for themselves in stead they should go to the others and communicate the same to them. Experience is to be communicated.