Jesus is risen. John 20 is the story of the resurrection of Jesus. Though a couple of apostles had gone to the tomb of Jesus in the morning on the third day; and they had gone into the tomb and found it empty and thus believed that Jesus is risen, it is only now (John 10:11-18) Jesus showed himself to somebody.
Mary Magdalene stood by the empty tomb crying, and Jesus comes to him and asks her, “why are you crying?” again Jesus calls her by her name, “Mary”, meaning, “Mary, why are you crying?” That concern for the other was the proof that it was Jesus raised from dead. Mary had experienced this concern even earlier. May be when she was being chased to be stoned to death. Or in Like 23, when Jesus was lead as a prisoner to his execution, carrying his cross, he stopped and told the women of Jerusalem, ‘do not cry’.
Jesus calling Mary by her name makes it more nuanced. John 10 confirms that He knows His sheep, and He will call each one by its name. Being called Mary confirmed to her that it was her shepherd. And Mary answered, ‘Rabboni’, which is not same as ‘rabbi’ meaning master or teacher. Rabboni means, ‘my master’. She would return to the apostles and to her village and talk not about a rabbi who is come back to life; but her master and teacher who is resurrected.
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