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Touch me not

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Announcements › Forums › Unreality – April 1st, 2018 › Touch me not

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  • March 27, 2018 at 12:38 pm #6218
    spencel
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    17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

    Below is from the Christian Science Journal 1892 in a “Questions and Answers” section:
    “Why does Jesus say to Mary, ‘Touch me not,’ when later (John
    xx. 27) he says to Thomas, ‘Reach hither thy hand, and thrust
    it into my side ;’ and (Luke xxiv. 39) ‘Handle me, and see;
    for spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have’? — Z.

    ROTHERHAM’S translation of the New Testament elucidates the
    meaning of the passage referred to, by means of a footnote.
    The literal rendering is: ‘Be not clinging to me,’ or, ‘Do not
    continue to cling.'”

    I love this story of Mary who is searching and weeping, looking for Jesus in the tomb, to find that he has risen. He finds her first and comforts her. She is obedient to his instruction and goes to tell the other disciples.

    Over the last couple of weeks it has been said several different ways and times that even though the man blind from birth could not see Jesus, Jesus saw him and and went to him and healed him. The Christ sees us and finds us. My job is to be receptive, become as a little child as was said at our last Rountable.

    March 28, 2018 at 9:17 am #6223
    Michael Pupko
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    John 20 :15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

    16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.

    Having read this who knows how many times, today it struck me how one word “Mary” uttered by Christ Jesus with the correct Spirit completely changed her perception of who she was talking to. Up until that point Mary being focused on other things didn’t recognize who she was talking to.

    I need to ‘follow’ “Shepherd show me how to go” (by Mrs. Eddy) by ‘knowing’ the Christ from ‘strangers.’; John 10:4 “And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
    5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strang­ers.”

    March 29, 2018 at 7:56 pm #6231
    chardelle
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    Mary going to check on the tomb of where Jesus supposedly lay —even before daybreak , finding the tomb empty, weeping. Jesus saw Mary and called to her. What joy and relief to see her Master. She obeyed Him and went to tell the others. Jesus saw Mary as he see us and will we hear Him –the Christ as he calls to us?

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