Mark 16:1 KJV
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
The customs of the Jews are such that it is difficult for us to get a handle on this passage. Jesus' body was already in the grave, sealed for three days. Why would these women even have the impulse to enter into the tomb to amount His body again? Some say it is because He was buried in such hast that proper anointing could not have been accomplished; they came to finish what they started. In any case they did come to anoint Him.
They came prepared
They had sweet spices for the anointing.
They came with a problem
Who would roll the stone away? I do not take it that this caught them by surprise but that they knew this would be a problem but came prepared anyway, expecting to somehow see it solved.
They came to find Christ risen
The stone was rolled away for them and something much greater than they imagined had happened. They only asked for a stone to be moved. They received a risen Saviour.
We never know what the Lord might accomplish if we come to Him prepared, but come even when we don't know how the problems before us can be solved.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
The customs of the Jews are such that it is difficult for us to get a handle on this passage. Jesus' body was already in the grave, sealed for three days. Why would these women even have the impulse to enter into the tomb to amount His body again? Some say it is because He was buried in such hast that proper anointing could not have been accomplished; they came to finish what they started. In any case they did come to anoint Him.
They came prepared
They had sweet spices for the anointing.
They came with a problem
Who would roll the stone away? I do not take it that this caught them by surprise but that they knew this would be a problem but came prepared anyway, expecting to somehow see it solved.
They came to find Christ risen
The stone was rolled away for them and something much greater than they imagined had happened. They only asked for a stone to be moved. They received a risen Saviour.
We never know what the Lord might accomplish if we come to Him prepared, but come even when we don't know how the problems before us can be solved.
Preacher,
ReplyDeleteLike I said yesterday, I needed this one.
Miss Connie