JOHN 20:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
Jesus said to her, 'Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?' Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, 'Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away' — Mary mistakes the risen Jesus for a gardener (kopōs), evoking Genesis 2-3: the garden of Eden, the fallen world's labor and sorrow. Her willingness to retrieve the body herself expresses determined love, yet she seeks a corpse rather than the living Christ. The gardener motif hints at new creation and resurrection as the restoration of Eden.
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