John 20:11–18
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We weep over loss, over betrayal, over the simple, grinding fact that everything we love in this world is subject to decay and death. Our modern world has two standard responses to this reality. The first is a brittle stoicism, a stiff upper lip that pretends the grave is not a tragedy. The second is a sentimental therapeuticism, which makes our feelings the center of the universe and offers endless validation but no actual hope. But the Christian faith does not ignore our tears, nor does it worship them. It gives them their proper place and then, gloriously, it gives a reason for them to cease. And it does so here, in a garden, with a weeping woman. Mary Magdalene, out of whom seven demons were cast, a woman with a past, is the first witness to the central event of all history.