John 20 (WK) - 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 he saith to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands, and reach thy hand, and put [it] into my side, and be not unbelieving but believing. (John 20:27)

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2 Kings 4:29• (2 Kings 4:29)

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2 Kings 7:9• (2 Kings 7:9)

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Matt. 28:7,9• ⁷{i}And go quickly and say to his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goes before you into Galilee, there shall ye see him. Behold, I have told you.{/i}
⁹{i}And as they went to bring his disciples word, behold also, Jesus met them, saying, Hail! And they coming up took him by the feet, and did him homage.{/i} (Matt. 28:7,9)

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Luke 10:4• ⁴Carry neither purse [pouch] nor wallet, nor shoes, and salute no one on the way. (Luke 10:4)

my brethren.

Psa. 22:22• (Psa. 22:22)

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Matt. 12:50• ⁵⁰{i}for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in [the] heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.{/i} (Matt. 12:50)

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Matt. 25:40• ⁴⁰And the King answering shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did [it] to me. (Matt. 25:40)

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Matt. 28:10• ¹⁰{i}Then Jesus says to them, Fear not; go, bring word to my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they shall see me.{/i} (Matt. 28:10)

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Rom. 8:29• ²⁹For whom he foreknew, he also predetermined [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he should be first-born among many brethren. (Rom. 8:29)

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Heb. 2:11‑13• ¹¹For both he that sanctifieth and those sanctified [are] all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying,
¹²I will declare thy name to my brethren, amidst the congregation will I sing thy praise.
¹³And again, I will trust in him; and again, Behold, I and the little children which God gave to me. (Heb. 2:11‑13)

I ascend.

John 13:1,3• ¹Now, before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own that [were] in the world, loved them unto [the] end .
³Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came out from God and goeth unto God, (John 13:1,3)

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

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John 16:28• ²⁸I came out from the Father and am come into the world; again I leave the world and proceed unto the Father. (John 16:28)

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John 17:5,11,25• ⁵and now do thou, Father, glorify me along with thyself with the glory which I had along with thee before the world was.
¹¹And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one even as [also] we [are].
²⁵Righteous Father, though the world knew thee not, but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me. (John 17:5,11,25)

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Psa. 68:18• (Psa. 68:18)

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Psa. 89:26• (Psa. 89:26)

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Luke 24:49‑51• ⁴⁹And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but do ye settle in the city, until ye be endued with power from on high.
⁵⁰And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them.
⁵¹And it came to pass, while he was blessing them, he was separated from them, and was 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, would give you [the] spirit of wisdom and revelation in full knowledge of him,
¹⁸having the eyes of your heart 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 the surpassing greatness of his power toward us that believe, according to the working of the might of his strength,
²⁰which he wrought in the Christ in having raised him out of the dead, and seated [him] at his right hand in the heavenly [places],
²¹far above every principality and authority and power and lordship and every name named not only in this age but also in that to come;
²²and put all things under his feet, and gave him as head over all things to the assembly,
²³which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. (Eph. 1:17‑23)

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Eph. 4:8‑10• ⁸Wherefore he saith, Having ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.
⁹Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower [parts] of the earth?
¹⁰He that descended, he it is also that ascended far above all the 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, that according to his abundant mercy begot us again unto a living hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection out of [the] dead, (1 Peter 1:3)

your Father.

John 1:12‑13• ¹²but as many as received him, to them he gave authority to become children of God , to those that believe on his name;
¹³who were born not of blood, nor of flesh’s will, nor of man’s will, but of God. (John 1:12‑13)

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Rom. 8:14‑17• ¹⁴For as many as are being led by God's Spirit, these are God's sons.
¹⁵For ye received not a spirit of bondage again unto fear, but ye received a Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba Father.
¹⁶The Spirit itself jointly testifieth with our Spirit that we are God's children;
¹⁷and, if children, heirs also; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if at least we suffer together, that we may also together be glorified. (Rom. 8:14‑17)

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2 Cor. 6:18• ¹⁸and will be to you for Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:18)

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Gal. 3:26• ²⁶for ye all are sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:26)

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1 John 3:2• ²Beloved, now are we God's children, and not yet was it manifested what we shall be. We know that if he should be manifested we shall be like him, because we shall see him even as he is. (1 John 3:2)

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Rev. 21:7• ⁷He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be God to him, and he shall be a son to me. (Rev. 21:7)

your God.

Gen. 17:7‑8• (Gen. 17:7‑8)

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Psa. 43:4• (Psa. 43:4)

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Psa. 48:14• (Psa. 48:14)

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Isa. 41:10• (Isa. 41:10)

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Jer. 31:33• (Jer. 31:33)

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Jer. 32:38• (Jer. 32:38)

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Ezek. 36:28• (Ezek. 36:28)

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Ezek. 37:27• (Ezek. 37:27)

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Zech. 13:7‑9• (Zech. 13:7‑9)

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Heb. 8:10• ¹⁰Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people. (Heb. 8:10)

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Heb. 11:16• ¹⁶but now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he 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}.