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Day 45 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: Imagine Jesus appearing to you. How do you feel?

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Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, \u201cThey have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don\u2019t know where they have put him!\u201d

So Peter and the other disciple went out to go to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and got to the tomb first. Stooping down and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he didn\u2019t go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and entered the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth that had been on Jesus\u2019 head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. So then the other disciple who had got to the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed. They had not yet understood from Scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.

Then the disciples went back to their own homes. But Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she cried, she stooped down and looked into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been. They asked her, \u201cWoman, why are you crying?\u201d

She said to them, \u201cBecause they have taken away my Lord, and I don\u2019t know where they have put him.\u201d When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, though she didn\u2019t know that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her, \u201cWoman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?\u201d

Thinking that he must be the gardener, she said to him, \u201cSir, if you have carried him off, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away.\u201d

Jesus said to her, \u201cMary.\u201d

She turned and said to him in Hebrew, \u201cRabboni!\u201d which means, \u201cTeacher!\u201d

Jesus said to her, \u201cDon\u2019t hold onto me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, \u2018I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.\u2019\u201d

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples bringing the news, \u201cI have seen the Lord,\u201d and she told them what he had said to her.