The angels said to Mary, Why do you cry? but still she went on crying, and said, Some people have taken away the Lord Jesus, and I cannot find him!
When she had said this, she heard a man behind her saying, Why do you cry?
She did not know who it was that spoke; she thought perhaps it was the gardener. If you have taken him, said she, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away.
The man said, Mary! She knew that voice, and turning round she looked, and saw that it was Jesus. How glad she was to see her Lord and Master, whom she loved! But Jesus could not stay with her. He told her to go and tell his dear disciples that he was alive. I am soon going up to my Father in heaven; but I shall see my disciples first.
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples. They were all crying, but they would not believe what Mary said.
Mary was glad that she had gone to look for Jesus. She was the first of all the people who saw Jesus after he was alive again.
LESSON XLVI.
THE TWO FRIENDS.
Luke, xxiv. 13-48.
It was early in the morning that the women went to look for Jesus. In the evening two good men were taking a walk together in the country. As they walked they talked about Jesus. They had not seen him since he was alive again: they did not know he was alive. They talked about his dying on the cross. It made them very sad to speak about it. At last a man came and spoke to them; they thought he was a stranger, yet he seemed to be a kind man.
He said, Why do you cry? I see you are talking of something very sad.