Verse from John

“说了这话，就转过身来，看见耶稣站在那里，却不知道是耶稣。”

约翰福音 20:14 

“When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.”

John 20:14 

After Jesus’s death, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early in the morning and found the stone rolled away and His body gone (John 20:1–2). She ran to get Peter and John, who returned with her to find the tomb empty (vv. 3–10). But Mary lingered outside in her grief (v. 11). When Jesus appeared there, “she did not realize that it was Jesus” (v. 14), thinking He was the gardener (v. 15).

How could she have not recognized Jesus? Was His resurrected body so changed that it was difficult to recognize Him? Did her grief blind her to His identity?

How might we too miss Jesus when He comes into our days—during prayer or Bible reading, or by simply whispering in our hearts?

Dear God, 

give us eyes to see Jesus, 

however He comes—in a familiar context or surprising us in an unexpected one.