John 20 (KJV) - Bible Truth Library

for I am not yet immediately going to ascend to my Father; you will have several opportunities of seeing me again; but go and tell my disciples that I shall depart to my Father and your Father."

John 20:27• ²⁷Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. (John 20:27)

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2 Kings 4:29• ²⁹Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child. (2 Kings 4:29)

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2 Kings 7:9• ⁹Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household. (2 Kings 7:9)

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Matt. 28:7,9• ⁷And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
⁹And 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. (Matt. 28:7,9)

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Luke 10:4• ⁴Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. (Luke 10:4)

my brethren.

Psa. 22:22• ²²I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. (Psa. 22:22)

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Matt. 12:50• ⁵⁰For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. (Matt. 12:50)

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Matt. 25:40• ⁴⁰And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. (Matt. 25:40)

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Matt. 28:10• ¹⁰Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me. (Matt. 28:10)

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Rom. 8:29• ²⁹For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Rom. 8:29)

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Heb. 2:11‑13• ¹¹For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
¹²Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
¹³And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. (Heb. 2:11‑13)

I ascend.

John 13:1,3• ¹Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
³Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; (John 13:1,3)

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John 14:2,6,28• ²In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
²⁸Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. (John 14:2,6,28)

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John 16:28• ²⁸I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. (John 16:28)

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John 17:5,11,25• ⁵And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
¹¹And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
²⁵O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. (John 17:5,11,25)

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Psa. 68:18• ¹⁸Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them. (Psa. 68:18)

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Psa. 89:26• ²⁶He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. (Psa. 89:26)

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Luke 24:49‑51• ⁴⁹And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
⁵⁰And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
⁵¹And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. (Luke 24:49‑51)

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Eph. 1:17‑23• ¹⁷That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
¹⁸The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
¹⁹And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
²⁰Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
²¹Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
²²And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
²³Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. (Eph. 1:17‑23)

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Eph. 4:8‑10• ⁸Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
⁹(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
¹⁰He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) (Eph. 4:8‑10)

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1 Peter 1:3• ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (1 Peter 1:3)

your Father.

John 1:12‑13• ¹²But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
¹³Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12‑13)

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Rom. 8:14‑17• ¹⁴For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
¹⁵For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
¹⁶The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
¹⁷And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (Rom. 8:14‑17)

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2 Cor. 6:18• ¹⁸And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:18)

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Gal. 3:26• ²⁶For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:26)

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1 John 3:2• ²Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)

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Rev. 21:7• ⁷He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Rev. 21:7)

your God.

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Psa. 43:4• ⁴Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. (Psa. 43:4)

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Psa. 48:14• ¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. (Psa. 48:14)

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Jer. 32:38• ³⁸And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: (Jer. 32:38)

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Ezek. 36:28• ²⁸And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. (Ezek. 36:28)

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Ezek. 37:27• ²⁷My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Ezek. 37:27)

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Zech. 13:7‑9• ⁷Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
⁸And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
⁹And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. (Zech. 13:7‑9)

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Heb. 8:10• ¹⁰For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: (Heb. 8:10)

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Heb. 11:16• ¹⁶But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. (Heb. 11:16)

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• Christ is her all, the need of her soul, the only desire of her heart. Without Him she has no home, no Lord, no anything. Now to this need Jesus answers; it indicates the work of the Holy Spirit. He calls His sheep by her name, shows Himself to her first of all, teaches her that His presence was not now to be a Jewish bodily return to earth, that He must ascend to His Father, that the disciples were now His brethren, and that they were placed in the same position as Himself with His God and His Father-as Himself, the risen Man, ascended to His God and Father. All the glory of the new, individual position is opened to her. (“John 20” by J.N. Darby)

• The history of the first garden, with a fallen man and woman driven out by the hand of God, is closed at the cross of Jesus, and here in this second garden, we find a risen Man and a redeemed woman, whose affection for His Person the blessed Lord appreciates at such worth, that He commissions her to be the bearer to His disciples, of the most wonderful tidings that human lips ever announced. (“Mary at the Sepulcher: John 20”)

• The Christian is called to know Him as man in heaven, always the Son, but now Man glorified on high. Hence the force of that which follows. Mary must learn to regard the Lord in an entirely new light, not in bodily presence here below, but for an object of faith as received up in glory. (“John 20” by W. Kelly)

• In Matthew the risen Lord resumes His relations with the Jewish remnant, and gives these women, as a sample of that remnant, to enjoy His presence on earth. For this reason, too, there is not only no ascension scene in the end of Matthew, but no allusion to the fact there; indeed, it would mar the perfection of the picture, which shows us the Lord present with His own until the consummation of the age. In John, on the other hand, Jewish feeling is immediately corrected; new relations are announced, and ascension to the Father takes the place of all expectations for the nations on the earth with the Jews as the Lord’s center and witnesses. (“John 20” by W. Kelly)

• “Do not go on touching Me”; it is a general and continuous prohibition, and this to represent the remnant taken out of their associations as Jews and put into new relations, not only with Christ in heaven, but through Him with His Father and God (“John 20” by W. Kelly)

• “Go unto My brethren.” He is not ashamed to call the disciples His brethren. (“John 20” by W. Kelly)

• Now, having died, He could bear much fruit; and here He announces the fact as worthy of Himself as of the God who sent Him in love beyond all thought of man. “I ascend unto My Father and your Father, My God and your God.” (“John 20” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

Jesus says to her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.

W. Kelly Translation

Jesus saith to her, Touch me nota, for I have not yet ascended unto theb Father; but go unto my brethren and say to them, I ascendc unto my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

WK Translation Notes

Let me observe that "Touch me not" is not by any means an adequate rendering of the expression. It is the verb which should be translated "handle." "Do not handle." He tells her not to yield to her impulse in familiarly laying hold of His person.

Or "my Father." The T. R. adds "my," but some MSS. omit.

Ascend (anabainō) is the abstract present tense. There is not the slightest ground to suppose an ascension previous to that which is described in {vi 126925}{/vi}.