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.

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