They Have Taken Away The Lord

They Have Taken Away The Lord

The arrival of the Sabbath caused Jesus to be brought down from the cross and buried in a nearby tomb (19:42). Now it is early on Sunday, proi again, just before dawn, the time when they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate on Friday morning (18:28). Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb ‘while it was still dark’ (20:1). Like Nicodemus coming to Jesus by night, or Judas going out into the night (3:2; 13:30), Mary is still in darkness, the black despair of grief and desolation…