John 20:18 BSB — MannaFest

John 20:18

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her.

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ASV

Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples, I have seen the Lord; and that he had said these things unto her.

KJV

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 12 (444)

That race which is specially subject to weakness----I mean the race of women----is restored by the loving-kindness of our Saviour, Who, in a manner, rolled up in one the source and origin of our infirmities, and ameliorated them for the future. For Mary announced that she had seen the Lord, Who had escaped from the bonds of death, and had heard His Voice, and brought to the disciples the words of life, and the firstfruits of the Divine Gospel.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Told the disciples - that he had spoken these things - St. Mark says, Mar 16:11, that the afflicted apostles could not believe what she had said. They seem to have considered it as an effect of her troubled imagination.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her--To a woman was this honor given to be the first that saw the risen R edeemer, and that woman was not His mother.

Modern Voices1 voice

G.K. Chesterton

1874–1936

The Everlasting Man, Part II Ch. 3 "The Strangest Story in the World" (1925)

What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἔρχεται	Erchetai	Comes	G2064 →
Μαριὰμ	Mariam	Mary	G3137 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
Μαγδαληνὴ	Magdalēnē	Magdalene	G3094 →
ἀγγέλλουσα	angellousa	reporting
τοῖς	tois	to the	G3588 →
μαθηταῖς	mathētais	disciples	G3101 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἑώρακα	he'ōraka	I have seen	G3708 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
κύριον,	kurion	Lord,	G2962 →
καὶ	kai	and [that]	G2532 →
ταῦτα	tauta	these things	G3778 →
εἶπεν	eipen	He had said	G2036 →
αὐτῇ.¶	autēa	to her.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

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Through
John 20:1
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
leads to
- Mark 16:9
  Early on the first day of the week, after Jesus had risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons.
- Matthew 27:60
  and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.
- John 19:25
  Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.
- Luke 24:1–10
  On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.
- Mark 15:46
  So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled…
Through
Matthew 28:10
“Do not be afraid,” said Jesus. “Go and tell My brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see Me.”
leads to
- Romans 8:29
  For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- John 20:17
  “Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God…
- Matthew 28:7
  Then go quickly and tell His disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him.’ See, I have told you.”

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John