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MATTHEW 28:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 28:8Matt 28:10
“And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.”
Suddenly Jesus met them — the risen Jesus appears to the women while they are running to obey the angel's commission. Obedience to the resurrection announcement is the occasion for encounter with the risen Jesus himself. Greetings, he says — the ordinary word, but from the lips of the risen Jesus it is anything but ordinary. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him — the physical contact (clasped his feet) establishes the bodily reality of the resurrection: this is not a vision or a ghost but the same physical Jesus in a resurrection body that can be touched. The worship confirms the implicit Christology of the passion narrative: the one who died as the accused blasphemer is worshiped by the first witnesses of his resurrection as Lord. The women who came to mourn leave as worshipers.

Church Fathers on Matthew 28:9

The women having been comforted by the Angel, are straightway met by the Lord, that when they should proclaim His resurrection to the disciples, they should speak rather from Christ’s own mouth than from an Angel’s.

Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century

'They departed forth of the tomb,' that is, from that spot of the garden which was before the tomb hewn in the rock.

Augustine · 4th century · de Cons. Ev., iii, 23

A twofold feeling possessed the minds of the women, fear and joy; fear, at the greatness of the miracle; joy, in their desire of Him that was risen; but both added speed to their women’s steps, as it follows, 'And did run to bring his disciples word.' They went to the Apostles, that through them might be spread abroad the seed of the faith. They who thus desired, and who thus ran, merited to have their rising Lord come to meet them; whence it follows, 'And, behold, Jesus met…

Jerome · 4th century
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