John 20
The Empty Tomb
When did Mary Magdalene go to the tomb? (Verse 1)
What did they see? (Verse 1)
Who did she come running to? (Verse 2)
What did she say had happened? (Verse 2)
Who started running to the tomb? (Verse 3-4)
Who outran Peter? (Verse 4)
What did the disciple look at? (verse 5)
Was the cloth still lying in its place, separate from the linen? (Verse 7)
Where id the disciples go back to? (verse 10)
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
What did Mary do? (Verse 11)
Who was in the tomb? (Verse 12)
What did they ask Mary? (Verse 13)
Who did she see? (verse 14)
Did she know it was Jesus? (Verse 14)
Who did she thing the man was? (Verse 15)
What did Jesus say to her before she recognized her? (Verse 16)
Why did Jesus say not to hold on to Him? (Verse 17)
What did Jesus tell her to do? (Verse 17)
What did Mary Magdalene go tell the disciples? (Verse 18)
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
Why did the disciples lock the doors? (Verse 19)
Who came an stood among them? (Verse 19)
When did Jesus do this? (Verse 19)
What did Jesus say? (verse 19)
When were the disciples overjoyed? (Verse 20)
What did Jesus say before he breathed on them? (Verse 21, 22)
What did Jesus say when he breathed on them? (Verse 22)
What did Jesus say to them after He said "Receive the Holy Spirit"? (Verse 23)
Jesus Appears to Thomas
Who was not with the disciples when Jesus came? (verse 24)
Who said, "We have seen the Lord?" (verse 24)
Who said, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”? (verse 25)
What happened a week later? (Verse 26-29)
When did Jesus come and stand among them? (Verse 26)
What did Jesus say to the disciples? (Verse 26)
Was Thomas with them? (Verse 26)
Who did Jesus say, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” to? (verse 27)
What does Thomas say to Jesus? (Verse 28)
What does Jesus say to Thomas? (Verse 29)
Who does Jesus say are blessed? (Verse 29)
The Purpose of John’s Gospel
Did Jesus perform many other signs in the presence of his disciples? (Verse 30)
Why are these specific signs written in John's gospel? (Verse 30-31)
Thoughts
"Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first."
"Thinking he was the gardener..." They are in a garden. Who did Jesus say He was? Who did He say the Father was? John:15:1, John 10:30
Who is Jesus talking to in verse 23?
What does verse 23 mean for me?
"Though the doors were locked"
Correlation
Out of context Matthew 20:16 and 19:30.
Luke 1:26-38 - Mary is visited by an Angel before Christ is born and then after His death.
In film, I normally describe this as chronological symmetry.
There are other examples of chronological symmetry even going as far back as creation.
https://www.toddjana.com/the-structural-symmetry-in-the-six-days-of-creation/
Was Jesus born in a cave? If so, that would be poetic in a similarly chronologically symmetrical way.
The birth and burial of the Son of God would have been in "convenient" underground places and the resurrection would be a perfect fulfillment of the dramatic principle we now call Chekhov's gun.
Not even to mention the parallels between
Luke 2:7 - John 20:7
Matthew 2:11 - John 19:38-42
John 20New International Version (NIV)
The Empty Tomb
20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalenewent to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved,and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Jesus Appears to Thomas
24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus[a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
The Purpose of John’s Gospel
30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31 But these are written that you may believe[b] that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Footnotes:
- John 20:24 Thomas (Aramaic) and Didymus (Greek) both mean twin.
- John 20:31 Or may continue to believe
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